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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  now. During my time at MIT, I've discovered that I love linguistics in ... the way I feel about my major. I love my major in a way that is less ... I want to understand it in private. I can see myself settling down

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  to Propulsion" this fall, and I want to prepare in advance. I would ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need ... how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab ... does that make me? I grew up in Taiwan but I went to an American school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... and naively thought we would be fine biking across the bridge in a ... Tuesday, I went apple picking! Me and friends in the hay ride! Every year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  the entire class in one place, I even ran into some people that I hadn ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  buy plane tickets.   The Great Biology Merger On Tuesday, I was a ... .06 this semester, so I would only be able to take 7.18 next semester when I ... (or more!) in lab working on a project that would have looked better on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  't have to know how to cook to live in a dorm with kitchens. I live in ... delivery, I eat in Boston, and sometimes I'll microwave some soup or some hot ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance around that time that I would have to skip. Reasons to go: Over 20 VC ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a ... invincible for two weeks in October. I was glowing. My mood took the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how ... chemistry in high school.~ I was young and naive and blissfully ignorant of 5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried ... moons embroidered in gold. I love celestial aesthetics for the idea that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... was very cozy in the Lyft. I stared outside the window, watching

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  overloaded sophomore fall, I had told myself that I would never subject myself ... conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021