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  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  's back to MIT a week from tomorrow. Who's excited? ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone call from Procter and Gamble alerting me to the fact that I had an ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• 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)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... : Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine ... Massachusetts (like most US states) allows driving with a foreign license printed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... , but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize ... . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  walked for a couple of hours with my teammates from Tau Beta Pi, an ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... front page has an article about Susan Athey, a 36-year old Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  isn’t actually that hard to unsubscribe from a mailing list, or even ... seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• 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 ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating a home when i was entering mit as a frosh, we knew, we all knew, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  student dorms at the university, which was only a short bus ride away from the school we taught at. I arrived on a bus from Prague and checked in ... students can take part in a variety of opportunities or take a much

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the ... was all a little much. Fortunately, I met some other awesome prefrosh! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... meeting Tues night; afterwards, sent rude texts to Nance from hotel bar ... here so long that I've forgotten what it's like to be in love with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  weekly equipment training. Aside from welding being a useful skill (it ... automatically extrudes from the torch and melts into a joint, just like hot glue ... about 1mm away from the piece of metal at a perpendicular angle, press the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... room over the summer plus the 10 boxes that I brought back from ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  dance floor. In Tucson she wouldn’t really emerge from being more of a ... ="aligncenter" width="171"] b1ner pancakes from a different b1 event, bab1o b1casso :D[/caption] ... last semester in [annotation note="a product development capstone class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me ... a manuscript about the speed of light and kinematics from a relatively ... This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  rejected from a lot of places. I've been ghosted by a lot of places. I've got ... 't gotten an offer from a single one. All I really want for this summer is to ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from ... Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  culture. Below, find a statistical snapshot of the Class of 2015, from the ... class includes students from Kansas and from Kenya. The class includes students from Alexandria, Virgina and Alexandria, Egypt. The class includes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011