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  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  knuckle pool because nobody really wanted to walk 5 feet to get the sticks ... get nine hours of sleep per night) would advise you not to eat. Weekends ... detail, until we get to dinner. In short, the event was the world premiere

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  ; because you want to get away from your parents as soon as possible, start ... class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... gets to be a grandmother Far, far too many people are way, way too blunt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... potatoes or sweet potatoes for 10minutes and get a solid hot to-go meal out ... entering. It’s so easy to get lost and go in circles and be picking up and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... to do research, focus on weather and forecasting, and get a PhD. Now ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for them to broaden their horizons, and students like me get swayed by status ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... making an effort to get off-campus more frequently, even if it's just to ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  . Sometimes she has to go get some flowers or something from her friends, so she ... to get an idea of the lighting conditions in Crate and Barrel, kind of ... on the basis of the above picture I decided not to use flash to get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul ... ? *cough*) get off the runway. It’s hard to get their support though. They

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  it terrified me. In 4th grade, I started to get more anxious about my ... ’t ready to accept, like the fact that getting one bad grade would not ruin ... took me to a dietician, and at this point I started eating again to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a ... of days to get there. But something that I later learned that I really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  sometimes, but this semester proved to me that I can get it done. 2.009 pushed ... coming year: get more rest. I pushed back a lot of responsibilities to ... getting to collapse, I had to write two final papers, an application essay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... Price Rd. to get onto Olive Blvd. and I couldn’t help but think about how ... into somebody’s car after fighting for shotgun/aux privileges, to get

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... me happy. :) So what am I taking? (Man, do I know how to get off track ... 't want to take just another language class because it gets kind of old

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... to get your own, you don't need much. Consider: Grimgrains, a blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021