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• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  feel the urge to push through, keep hiking. I called for a stop about an ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i ... in the summer (and i do have a couple more posts planned for that), but ... ) "You are so loved. Just hang in there." (dear past me) "For now, I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  as both an 85 and a 100 are considered A+), so should i send in my ... transcripts< i got two 100/100s in maths and science, but both an 82 and 100 are ... about it, find a way to drop the hint in an essay: "When I visited XXXXXX

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  , that was definitely an unexpected decision for me that changed the course ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 new best friends for life. In this photo: Phi Kappa Sigma alumni

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague ... Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  walk the Kerry Way and keep an eye out for trails that headed up the ... It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  HAPPENING, TIME.) From what I've read about myself on the blogs in an attempt ... Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  totally in favor of a professor calling me Master Snively. "What an ... into the laces but that'll wear off in time. MasteringPhysics.com is an ... conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... deactivated for the summer. In mid-August, one of my suitemates decided to try

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  through applications, an idea slowly started forming in my head. Well, more ... came from a particular student who started an email list for her ... work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... survived (an almost perfect metaphor for tooling at MIT). Cory and I bought ... , either over the summer or as a project for a gap semester. An expired one

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  wrong, and that's when an upperclass shadow would step in to give us ... here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force. ... ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  My brother's not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words, "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  play. When I walk past that house, I feel an overwhelming yearning for ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... and record an audio of myself speaking, which I've been doing in lieu of

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

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... stinging debacle.   There's an air of comfort in the frat that partly ... provides friction, an energy that defines how the characters behave in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  App essays, or gearing up for the MIT regular deadline. Wherever you are in your college app process: good job! You're doing really good, keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019