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• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... distinguish a time when I was not trying to convince myself that I actually deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German ... tell how much bio and physics I managed to retain from freshman year; I ... an unrelated note, I watched How to Train Your Dragon today, and now I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  , reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any ... . Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new ... think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... household level that takes advantage of solar properties to treat water. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  , they manage to polish off the bag with little effort. Oh, how I seethe at ... not part of my job description, much to the surprise of dorm residents ... are you?" and she checked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" but I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ? how far could i get? thus, began the journey to the end of the world ... started rowing, chasing the setting sun, not knowing how long it would be ... painfully obvious to me that the world i have come to know is not at all the

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  , tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... Abercrombie & Fitch? I'm willing to bet that not one of my questions is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  ; Ultimately, not only did I end up learning how to use the gym, but I got a ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... talking to someone whom they suspect does not know the numbering system. I ... know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  the first time. Blogging is being careful not to reveal how little I ... psychology departments so I'll know how to fully answer an applicant ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -packed sleeping schedule allows it!    To be or not to be… WIDE? That’s not ... didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way ... secret to being WIDE is to not plan on it—but to see it, do it, taste it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a

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

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  out who left their stuff all over the table, deciding how we want to ... this reference? Is it now possible to date oneself with Kesha? How time ... things I go to are not very much closer to Central Square than they were to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  was handed one sticker, no strings attached (not even a website to visit ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the ... hardcoreness, my gift was wrapped in duct tape (to which someone joked "how are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  lesson to everyone at the performance to highlight how dangerous it is to ... Borskis. I kid you not. You might know Borski as a frequent commenter, so ... is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  't begin to tell you how that feels, after all this time. Maybe I'll have the ... members of MIT '10 - and to those who were not admitted to MIT this year, I ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... Branch. (This is not, incidentally, where you would go if you wanted to see ... can catch the shuttle and not have to carry your groceries home. There

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006