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  See You Later

  

  frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  've always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I loved being in ... the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit. Lately I've found myself wishing I could stay in this liminal space

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  some shots where I thought it would be a great addition to zoom in, or to ... I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention ... I figured I would talk a little bit more about this class. I'll start

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

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... try. I love you all, and best wishes in the future! ... Since I start grad school orientation tomorrow, and tomorrow is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... matter whether it goes in the trash or into the mouth of somebody I know ... would encourage you to join me. Maybe, if I'm so motivated, I'll write a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... people like us have to deal with. I would like to say that I haven’t had to ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom ... they fear that bringing in bigger boats to Berlin and Brandenburg would

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  in an RPG, his charisma would be... cheat code." ***** "I'm convinced ... conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... that if I weren't holding a vial full of toxic solvent right now, I would

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  'm writing my thesis, which is in product design. I'm taking 2.72 - Elements of ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in ... been sleepless nights and what I would imagine has been a mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... lot. To switch gears slightly, I applied to MIT in the regular action

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  longest I had ever been away from home prior to then would be my three week ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  dream in which i miss[annotation note="i'm leaving in eight days, next ... is painted blue; i feel deliciously underwater."]open my eyes[/annotation]in ... in six minutes anyway. 9.24 - 9.35 am: i check my email and catch up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... slowly in my own impotence, but at least I was toasty and well-fed. Here ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10 ... !? WHY WOULD YOU PICK THIS CHAIR!? I only gave it 2 stars!!! I thought that ... really would have been the best choice and it was unfairly ousted in favor

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... through all possible scenarios in my head: if it was locked, would I walk away? No. Would I break in? Possibly. Would I knock? Maybe. If it wasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016