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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... Calendar, which I commit to memory every week. At the table, a few of us talk ... :20 — My second alarm. I ignore this one too. 11:25 — I roll over at this

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  one of my favorite classes at MIT. I will likely write an entire post ... sleeplessness. I hate the nagging desire to escape MIT at the end of the week. I ... think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reminds me of japan a lot. there's a japanese market that i do groceries at ... the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... of stressing out about it like i did last year. i'm happy doing things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  , it was honestly humbling to look back at all my failures of somewhat ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... decided to take the course that honestly was overbearing at times, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... of chocolate chips while at Shaw's, and invited me over to New House 3 ... number of men's bathrooms per floor: two point eight. Average number of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  month observing the mating habits of the narwhal. I got a promotion at ... writing about my life at a school of technology. Also, they erased all my ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  something important to say at the end of this entry. Here's a quick ... (more specifically, Matt McGann and Ben Jones) were two of the speakers ... 's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  you can still check out all of the MIT Admissions blogs at my ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and regret my choice of footwear (slides). i start to wonder if anything has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  sinuses.   Friday marked my first full month of classes at MIT. Back ... ’m struggling at the intro level. And you have to take care of yourself now??? Add ... I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  dedicated queer space at MIT. They host a lot of events such as open houses ... discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  .   No matter what you call love, at the end of the day it’s an ... Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a little bit about Next House. Next is awesome! It's full of nerds, musicians

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  ’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the ... talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... amazing three-day conference, which was attended by hundreds of people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005