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  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  -Americans, but they spoke to their families in Chinese on the phone. I would just ... scared I would lose after leaving MIT. Will teaching and traveling in ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to have research experience. I have about two years of experience in ... very hard in my bio classes. Be flexible with your path. Yeah, I know ... taken on more classes and research and networking, I would be so burned

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  i would just get the pizzas who are confident in their vegetarian ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but when the recruiting process began, I quickly fell in love with the idea

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... him what I'd done and that I was worried that Dumbledore would judge me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ,[/annotation][annotation note='Alan: I promised CJ that I would link the TikTok that he was in ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... puzzles and fixed problems in earlier rounds, we would unlock more of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  MII! I'M STANDING ON A GIANT AR CARD IN LOBBY 7!!! Ok, this was too ... group! I'm pretty sure Borat and Jesus are in there. Turns out there ... in, so I cycled through all of them. Here are some of my favorites

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in ... colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  lose skill in this case but I will be out of practice. It would feel like ... in the middle of the day. I was fleshing out ideas I would use again ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I ... this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project, lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024