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• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where it was finally enough, and I would be at peace knowing that I could

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... myself in having the best friends in the world. This semester, I felt a cold and sobering moment as I sat in my friend's dorm room in the late

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  going to drown in snow on my way to class. If I never post again, you now ... An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... campus, I finally found my present hidden in a dryer in the Baker laundry ... So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks ... 'd probably be under "it's complicated." i first visited mit back in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... . So if I wasn't in my dorm room, exploring Harvard Square, or secretly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  from what I wrote in your letter. I have always known Emma would be the ... around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  . Brendan told me that I would want to run another one in two weeks, and I did ... Kayode would have noped RIGHT OUT OF in high school. But if I could run a ... journals in school, I would scribble all over the first page to break any

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... awesome! I imagined that I would try new experiments, test new compounds, and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff ... I thought it would be appropriate to talk about why it was I chose MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you ... more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  different perspectives in these three songs. If I had to rank them, I would ... of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... a story and I think it is really cool [annotation note="in today

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... doing, and why. I was sure James would be happy as a neurosurgeon. I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  the "reading kid." I read books with friends in [annotation note ... ="1022"] i have no idea why my face is so distressed in this picture but ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college, you may be surprised by the wide range and high quality ... students who are interested in MIT's faculty-led ensembles such as the MIT

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006