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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... I can’t bring them with me. This is what Jeffery’s half of the room ... One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... entries on: "Why You Can’t Fail A Class Freshman Year." I’ve probably ... , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree... don't tell me. I ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I debugged robot drivetrains, I was never completely sure what folks of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... ' froyo (instead of buying my own -____-| | |) cuz I think one spoonful with ... you can pretty much attach anything you want (when I applied - Columbia

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  website with a larger list of more summer programs you can check out.   ... many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult ... brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  academic adviser, hahaha. I kept this exam since 2008 because I still can ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19 ... members can span several generations.  Kenneth is one member like that. He ... Side of Fraternities because I would not have described it any better

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... hand. Alright, if I can’t [annotation note="At reasonable prices and without expending an unreasonable amount of time."]buy it,[/annotation] I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... pressures that I can disclose was feeling this strange, existential crisis for ... recently; I think within the last three years or so. During the week, you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  classroom from the window. I can wear mismatched socks and plop down on the ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... that Esperanto can be learned quickly. The second class I was coteaching ... involving buying and selling pieces of chalk, and I think that helped explain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... retrospect, I can understand why she'd reacted like this. How could I have felt ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about ... websites. "So what do you like about compsci then, Cami?" And if I were to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... more than I can express - the precarious chain of events that happened to ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014