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  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but ... in Iowa that had barely changed since I left it, and my old friends

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... can offer guidance. But sometimes I’ll see a Linkedin update about ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  closest elementary school friends nor I can remember the silly acronym that ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the ... chewing gum. Then again, in high school, I also [annotation note="energy can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... ’re curled up in the kitchen watching Veronica Mars, and when I’m done with ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My ... , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... of a button. It certainly left Hot Wheels in the dust. I turned five

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for ... . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a ... decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  , which will continue through the show. I hope you can join us! Paul and ... hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... same (awesome) group of friends that I had made in elementary school. If ... . Oh, if change came my way, I’d cope. Happy change was taken in stride

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015