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• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere ... , and there's nothing I can do..." An email was sent out this morning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What most people don't know is that at home Belinda Chinea has an 18-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... Puerto Rico, I am a daughter and an adventure-seeking gal ready to soak in ... , and a nerd, always covered in gloves, a hat, and an oversized coat

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... ,728.94 And this really ought to concern you. If you're an MIT student voting in ... opt for absentee ballots at home. I'll be voting in Connecticut this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  was the right choice for me. I've really enjoyed coming home to an ... 'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... . In order to gain some valuable experience manufacturing products, we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  ?). The MIT Caving Club will gladly take anyone with an interest in shucking ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  make or break an experience for me. This isn't anyone's fault per se, but ... 7-10 years behind in terms of music, and it did not bode well for ... holds. I wouldn't do an experience like this for a second time, but

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• 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 ... . If you feel the same way, don't hesistate for a second to shoot me an ... and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Each year of elementary school, in late November, one could walk into ... elementary school. In middle school there was much less Thanksgiving festivity ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  bathroom wafting overhead for six hours, the guy in front of me reclining into my spleen, the guy on my right bathed in eu d'blah-blah-YOU'RE ON AN ... kids, but for now, can all the babies please just STAY IN ONE PLACE??

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... afternoon I finished all of my work for 1.851 (Water and Sanitation in ... was not enough to make up for the previous....well, 4 years in general

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  our dorms with an enormous golden stag head in tow. For more ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... wait times for the major rides. Normally, Expedition Everest, an intense ... in the morning despite not needing to. To Julie, for dealing with my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... dance for over a month, I delete it or put it in a subfolder to free up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I ... note="contacting fire directly onto your skin in an artful way ... autumn has already breathed its dying breaths.  I'm an [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  increasingly nostalgic for my experiences back then. Our table in honors math ... senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be 18) in my hometown, I was growing anxious, antsy, and impatient. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  (arguably more important). Now that I'm awake I can hit snooze for an hour. 9:00am ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... coursework. The supervision work I talked about last week is only graded for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  excuse for me to revel in the fact that I miss my little brother a ton ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010