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  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  complete undergraduate experience I would look back on most fondly in 20 ... motivate that step in a blog post leads to insights I would never have had ... a moment, I would say that the biggest difference between the culture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  that I started watching in an effort to make myself stop watching Love is ... decent bit growing up - I was in some combination of cross country and track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  would be coming this early. Thus, I ended up spending two nights in ... journey in Spain began. Over the next month, I would come to know his ... really neat that I would be learning the vocabulary for relationships in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  in line. I honestly didn’t think I would get through those two days. I ... would be inevitable if I dwelled too much on her story. In that moment ... classes are actually really interesting. I never thought I would enjoy 6

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  pursue a field that I'm interested in to mastery. I would, however, need to ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different ... that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... need per recipe, I put them all in a Google Keep note Mealpacking Pack

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  kitchen space than, well, buying a $200 pressure cooker and air fryer in one ... classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... Raymond and I recently moved out of our Honolulu airbnb (blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... writing class (which I would generally avoid with a 10 foot stick), it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / 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 / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  time that would be comparable to what I’m feeling now would be when I was a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• 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 / 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