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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... is right in the middle of Chinatown, so I've walked by it countless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  . In fact, I spent a good 20 minutes listening to some super ... picking something from the least brattiest band in the world. I settled on ... except for the counselors and it was the first time in my life that I felt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... minute -- did I mention F/A-18s? Those would be the Blue Angels, the ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... . Last week I pretty much lived in the Stata Center while taking ESD.950

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... So, MIT is hard. I figured this out after I noticed that I’ve stayed

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  the “p-set zone,” it helps us think in different ways than we would in ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn ... (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer ... last year/beginning of this year, I feel really included in what is going

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  all day to tell me, because she knew I was involved in FIRST in high ... spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  actual novels in this language. i was actually what you would consider ... just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... and trying something new. I would consider myself practiced at about ... eat fire. This would make the post too long, so I’ll maybe talk about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025