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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... happy, encouraging; they will reflect the growth I've felt in the corners ... been extremely difficult, in ways that I both could and could not foresee

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... mind around in circles. (Because! I'm! actually! just! screaming

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  rest can be found in the MIT Libraries. Articles from The Tech ... Technology, which can be found in the MIT Libraries’ Institute Archives and Special Collections. A map of the 1924 campus layout can be found in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... vigilant about dental hygeine. In another sense, I'm taking a fiction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... five years ago, in November 2008, when I was 16 and Max was six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... family in thirty years. And I’ll be damned if I ever forget it.   ... while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022