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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -hundred miles away, studying things that are a million miles from home ... arrived in the United States as a 7-year-old from Colombia. At the time, the ... ," said Boyd. Some say he's a genius. He doesn't think so, but plans on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... from distant lands to Cambridge, via Boston Logan Airport. I hold great ... /blogs/entry/getting-home-from-the-airport/"]trip;[/annotation]by the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  someone who derives a great deal of happiness from a well-cooked meal, I ... to admit that I gained a lot of things from the experience. Having ... feels: a home away from home.

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two-hour flight, during which I met a matriculating Harvard Medical School student

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the ... take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  locked away for 15-30 years for taking a TV from the corner store; for ... with their A+, grinning from ear to ear. My heart flies when I see young ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  2 Kittens from mysterious origins came into my life about a month ago. They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... from, we don't know who might have put them there, but they were quickly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  everything from college admissions, to getting a great job opportunity, to ... . After college, it becomes a lot harder to make friends.  As you go from ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Spotify Wrapped came out a little while ago, and Kayode wrote a post ... Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... auditory engagement—I spend most of my time as a shamelessly mindless

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; today, i feel like a leaf rustling impatiently behind far gone cars   ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... to do it. There are classes of all varieties from bookmaking to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  movies are all amazing and are a great break from the pset slog, and also ... I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  from a high schooler who never cooked anything to a college student who ... 't listen to as much music as I know a lot of other people do, and my tastes definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least ... for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of ... fastest path from simmons a tower tenth floor to the banana lounge entrance ... on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  identity once I got home from school. Once I became a college student, I didn ... exempt from discussion about ethics, just that it might require a different ... 't do a proper graduation post last year because I was tired, and I wasn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from ... the direct growth of all of its characters. Finn, evolving from a ... from his conniving ways. Finn is a hero that embodies goodness and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022