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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... Pauli myself. But I'm not in charge of that. I'm in charge of feeding 20

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery ... are a bunch of things I have not done during IAP that would have been ... resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 's when I'm most productive," high school me would've told you. That wasn't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... i worried in the first place. why was i so concerned about my psets

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very interested in applying to MIT. I have one question about the application process I would like to ask you (I read this post and thought that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... would be postponed. and i have… mixed feelings about it. to fully explain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  more. In hindsight, I would say I struggled to balance (or even identify ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... the past few days, I've been wondering about what I would blog about today, asking myself what I would have wanted to hear last year. I'm not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... one or the other (I'm not referring to anyone in particular), but dorm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  hard classes to finish up to graduate in time. Some weeks I would only ... easy tomorrow, but I would have to somehow find that fire in my belly ... let my body rest and heal. I did bring my skates with me, just in case

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  the future in my major. But at least I would know that there was some ... , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told ... some grad school in the UK. Or I would've told you about living life as ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... interesting solution would shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding the distribution of prime numbers. Or if you saved a penny every hour, it would take

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people in my class and I consistently felt like my priorities were at odds

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  while, I felt I would just major in something that was “pure” science ... would do. In a sense, I craved something more tangible to me than these ... eventually felt that engineering was what I would want to major in the most. It

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as ... home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020