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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... . CJ: Mhm. Anna: It just feels like… I'm locked in to this choice, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  good, because I was starving. I decided to get adventurous, so I bought ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  back to my airport hotel in the interest of getting out early because of ... 'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... to learn how to read and engage younger children in reading. You can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... from backstage, we don’t actually get to watch the show. In fact, with ... in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own ... ’m just existing, with nothing going on, no thoughts in my head, nothing to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  , an amazing pizza restaurant in Kendall Square that you should all go to ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of ... …”, “Breakthrough in…”, MIT is discovery, invention, and innovation. We are lucky to be in a place that enables us to pioneer the next novelty, but amidst

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my ... matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020