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• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  can gently scratch [annotation note="I'll admit to some number of ... I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... : Wow, I bet you can get a really nice view from the top of that building

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... quotes I've read in my life. I saw pictures and artifacts and stories of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  UROP. As I work from home. In the third geekiest city ever, mind you.) ... lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ). Now I can add the long-ass Porter escalator to the list of places in ... ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... striking how different each of them has been, and how viscerally I can feel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  most of MIT by just staying in that bubble. Joining class group chats can ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I ... overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... things cost adult-living-in-a-major-city prices. On one hand, I want to go full-crazy I'm-totally-living-in-like-Friends-or-Sex-and-the-City and go

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  in the city. It was nice of him and though I didn't see him again ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... . I took the generic photo in front of the Microsoft sign. We mostly

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... grandpa shared an anecdote of his childhood with me that I think really ... I first came to MIT, I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but who

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing ... , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire ... questions as we can and do our best to answer every question fully. I've found

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... , MIT has a sense of humor, no doubt in my mind, I'm going there. Since ... of the requirements. Luckily this wasn't an issue I ran in to. I went

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  really great semester class-wise. I hope I can get three of these classes ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... GREAT! I've been spending A LOT of time with Rory. I've grown a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... case you are wondering, the admissions officer of whom I speak of is me. In the words of the incomparable sage of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg "He is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short ... Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... . Different in an unpredictable way. I'd shaken out the initial thought of I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025