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• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... a car nor family in the area. So the way I usually handle my summer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that ... , homemade gelato in Beacon Hill, truffles on Newbury, Trader Joe's chips in my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I've heard stories from my grandparents about their memories ... important. I confirmed my belief that the world we live in now is different

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I ... details of my life. I'll tell you things I want you to know in my blog, but ... I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  real homecomings for me. In the few moments that I wasn't working, I was ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... delicious as I remembered. In fact, I'm salivating just thinking about them

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my ... the gritty details.) I know way too much about MacGregor so email me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of many organizations. I show up for events randomly, but don't attend

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe ... There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with ... hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  Turns out that Anthony isn't the only one who loves Amtrak. I called ... change my reservations because I found out that my bio recitation had been cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. So, in a fairly literal sense, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great ... tour an MRI lab and take a look at the psychology in movies like "I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... has been twelve years. I am so very old. A lot has happened in the last ... in my mid-thirties. Maybe I will be married with children. Maybe I will

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022