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  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  , and Ulysses in the Building 4 Athena Cluster. I rushed out of the ... moral of this story is, though I suppose it can be any one of the ... can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of ... outside of the upper-middle-class suburban bubble I resided in. Through poetry, I met kids from all over the city. Each one of them had something

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can ... I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  particularly difficult during the month of December. Anything I can't buy in ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  reminders. Of things I believe strongly in and hold near and dear to my heart ... process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time ... lot of things that I've missed or forgotten about, so if you have any ... buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in ... expert. What I do take pride in, though, is my understanding of the media ... have been exacerbated by my relationships. As I sit in a New York City

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... , I hope for you, sometime in these past years, I've drawn some of the ... fill in a few of the details. I hope so. After five years of blogging, I

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

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... Snapfish account when I was there for a MISTI internship in the Summer of ... then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the ... close-up shots of food, as I think they're quite overused; however, in a ... what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and unpack later (in some imaginary future wherein I have ample unstructured

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And, in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  of you to help make the world a better place. And I know you can ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... your applications brought back some memories for me. When I was in high

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  mango juice in a turd mug. I ordered a House of Poo Poo variation of ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... 10 weirdest restaurants in the city. Naturally, we started at the top

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014