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• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... meal that doesn't come with fries. I'm also pretty excited to get totally ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... , i'll request you to visit www.iisc.ernet.in/kvpy to get more info ... have to take multivariable again in MIT if I get accepted?" I'm a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... through this right now"]pressure to talk to everyone at any chance you get ... whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  of random things. Then I realize I have work and get back to it. It ... I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the ... 'm looking forward to getting back to it (and hoping that it turns out that I ... trying to get better at quizbowl, but being really bad at prioritizing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , and you get to experience awesome things down the road. I think the ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  get back to more stable internet connection. Aaand literally as I just ... share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning ... observe, so hopefully we'll get to go either Thursday or Friday. Professor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  meeting was the overarching timeline to get the hunt written. We selected by ... universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... , means that it needs to be written backwards. The metas get written, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  Uber across the (very beautiful) bridge to get to the mainland. obviously ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to ... mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One ... down I feel like I'm gonna drown To GPA yet to come Still out there yet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  't belong here. The last thing you need is to get into a relationship and go ... dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... , so I usually only do this if I get a to-go box (e.g., during late

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  just happy to see fresh and current MIT student faces, but after getting ... for finishing the hunt first is getting to write next year's puzzle) I ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  come next. I wanted to complete the Turnaround, I wanted to get freshmen ... other. We were even lucky enough to get a meeting with the upper level ... my stomach. It reminds me of the countless mistakes I made to get here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , something I feel ultimately to be true."]slowly, but surely, things get better ... , imagine a different world, and then find a way to get there. You may find ... [/annotation]2023, for reasons that I don't really want to get into right now. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024