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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  type of person, I was impressed by everything these groups had built in ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of ... that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  's basement, though I can think of many others. And in the end, we were ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... , of belonging - of, in a word, fraternity. When I walk into our six

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  of 2007, I'm getting a little tired of being in school right now. Not ... Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving ... this summer, which is sort of embarrassing since I keep making reference to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  tired of rice. That's fine. You can cook oatmeal in a rice cooker. I put ... HMart up in Central, and it was good. I have this bottle of furikake ... ingredients that can go in a lot of different things is that you can mix and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... was speaking about old friends. I’d been terrified of physics in high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 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 physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always ... of hours ago! Yida and I had stored our stuff in a storage locker at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... series that I started watching way back in my senior year of high school ... the restroom without feeling like I was going to faint in the middle of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i ... have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a ... everything is in place. i can let everything around me slip and then catch it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  paper and I am done! You can read the final version of my paper in the ... and what order I can possibly put them in. When I finish researching, I ... Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of ... I was an East Campus senator in the UA. I'm also part of Alpha Phi ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... introductory courses in a whole host of languages. I taught the one in Python. It

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving ... 's family... but in many ways every student of color that I admit to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  , excelling. It was a lot of work, but it felt right. I graduated in 2011, and ... As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... publications. Discussions of, and practice in, interviewing and various modes of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  't think I'm going to miss the atmosphere of MIT; I haven't so far and can ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this ... . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of ... Sloan's Wong AuditoriumSome of you might be wondering what Model UN is in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011