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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  call, or maybe even in person in the distant future. I can hear the ... is gone, in the past, and I can’t reasonably expect to return to square ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post, this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ ... that day was rain showers, and I didn’t want to run in the rain! We

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... temp. 9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... turns out that you can just buy historical weather data in bulk. Here ... . The scale's in Celsius, but you can probably convert to Fahrenheit, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I ... has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018