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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  2, of Simmons): "I'm off to be a girl scout camp counselor in Plymouth ... am in the middle of nowhere?). I'll be sending you some processed ... Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... use the restroom and I ended up falling asleep in the seat. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... , you can speed down Memorial Drive to Walker in maybe three minutes, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... compilations, especially in the wee hours of the night. i hope in some other life ... happier. While I'm not psetting in front of the Stud or lounging on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  irrational when I am around you. --How can I know so many hundreds of digits of ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... was May 3rd. In addition to the stress of graduation, we also needed to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  philosophers. I recognized a few of their names. In one chamber, Marie and Pierre ... coalesce into a story. It’s too simple a story, I know—of a city that lives ... honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... night sky away from the city. You can say that’s cheesy, and that I didn ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... Interphase EDGE, a decent amount of people did not think I was a student in the program, and I was used as a fictional character in one of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  a handful of the events created with you in mind for CPW and I hope ... do how can you really get the most out of the experience? I hope you ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... I was in for--originally thinking the project would take the rest of ... looking for help (as both of them can confirm), but by now I have enough

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  were harmed in the end. I acquired ~99% of college wisdom from fellow ... Principle of Conservation of Difficulty. As mentioned earlier, I fell in love ... paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be described in no other manner than just sad. The amount of people I see in the ... (which are actually in June. Silly Cambridge). I can't wait!

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  effectiveness of your teammates. I’ve found it’s a lot easier to put in my best ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be ... for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013