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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  , that is what you do. And now I can consume them without effort ... until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... 't here yet. Meeting one another, in masks and from a distance, that will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  -three. What matters is, do I feel like I’m in a weird valley? Not really. Or ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... I should also mention that this is all covered under basic insurance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... was just a bit terrified because that was my [annotation note="I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple ... answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been ... ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot ... . Macgregor is divided into nine entries; I've lived in A-Entry and D ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  from the same school? 2)Is it true that if I apply to MIT as a major in an area, which is not that competitive as compare to engineering, do I ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  's a giant nail in my tire that i have to fix or my cells aren't growing ... of bohemian rhapsody. after that, i lost interest in vinyls. not ... . we ended up in a record store and i was looking at the cd section. we

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  check it). Is it just a mistake? Do I need to worry about it?" Matt '00 ... . Miriam asked: "I have taken a lot of classes that aren't in the main ... this really true? 2) Also, what should I do when what I need to put in is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  proportions of aquaporins in a cell are   2:41 am: today I learned that ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am ... : that’s a lot of subtypes more subtypes than I expected Revision: Thought

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  they made me uncomfortable. That I did not feel safe being in a house ... myself: Do you feel better now? In a way, I did. This time was different ... first time in that house, I felt at ease. This blogpost is still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... ? What did he recommend I do as a freshman? What were some events and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don ... relativistic time dilation and fall in love with physics. In 2003 I'm a high ... department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... stunning in person I was shaken to my core. I also got a lot of photos just ... and I'm like a senior in college now Him: Yeah you seem really nervous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  to my alma mater in only a matter of 45 minutes! It was this road that paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ... rattled, ruffled, and scared in Boston. I arrived as a wide-eyed Country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip

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

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  . First, I had forgotten that this REX would be the first in-person REX in ... will move to a permanent assignment that better fits them. At Next and in ... with friends I hadn’t seen in a while, as they slowly returned to campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  unending drive to do better is built in them. However, as I said before there ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... that this is not a statement about my entire high school. During my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  it used to. Freshman fall, in a blog about realizing that I didn't know ... is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... school; that there is so much left to sneak up on me, to change the way I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020