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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  was when the school rented out the Boston Aquarium for a nighttime party ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  let me shower. I’d heard a crow call in person for the first time. I ... took a shot for every bared breast you saw in the Vatican, you’d leave ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... just for the day. After that, he had to move me back to my original

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  took for granted any other time. I took a breath. The air was crisp, and ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  the way I squeezed in time for amazing people. But it was always a squeeze; I never left time for a vacation, and the end of my senior year it ... thousandfold-amplified appetite for work, I was in a slump. The excuses I made

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  home for my 4 years at MIT. It was a cool experience starting classes the ... for registration, a booklet that talks about the recruitment week ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  correctly, nothing was actually lost. But for the trouble, we were granted a ... Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... throughout the week. Wednesday is not the day for black, but is a peak day for ... A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  TA. The same goes for professors. I mean, sure. There's a certain ... usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  this English homework for you if you do the other half.” I think maybe a ... instrumental track as a gift for my birthday. The song was called “Delta P” to ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research ... the end of the year, my father was no longer a professor. For most of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  weekend was what I think the blogs created for people much sooner, a ... the series’ 10-year run, a spinoff began following Matt LeBlanc as Joey ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  . The tattered bill requested 13,800 dollars for a three-day hospital stay ... neglected in the county hospital for over two hours, unable to flag down a passing nurse for assistance because of the language barrier. Clutching a X

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  MIT as a staff member for a few years, knew my way around the Institute ... of challenge. For a while, I flailed. I would come to class or to the ... for a marathon has taught me the importance of sleep and nutrition

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  's building numbers. Take a picture for the Korean tourists; be PART OF A ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known ... the day I think I and a lot of others are much better people for our ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... to pay a premium for a patty made of beans. So, the idea is simple: you ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013