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  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... writing those words makes my heart beat faster. I could write about how I think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... waitlist for my gym class, so everything’s set! Scheduling classes this ... an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... semester before and had just completed my graduate assistantship, so it was high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... the ever reliable Anna's. My relationship with the Stud Subway was ... an eye, it has disappeared from my life. My grief is immeasurable; my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  My family isn't really into traditions. We don't celebrate many ... distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ski trip over winter break. This year was no exception, so my family

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password ... , you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my functional cohort (and some of my closest friends) from grad school are ... of my friends but will try to occasionally update this post with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to ... curious about all those settings on my camera -- and the meaning of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as ... into Giacomo's this time). One of my favorite aspects of the North End

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  , lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full ... mentioned, I'm doing my thesis with the Media Lab, an extraordinarily spacious ... instrument the satirically named kitchenette outside my lab My defeated

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2 ... with some paper, a pen, and my clarinet. A while later I had transcribed ... some creativity when notes dip below my playable range, I got it to sound

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got ... 't bore you with details, but my group wants to change old power plants into ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... section labeled "fun." Basically I decided that if my to do list looks like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make ... happens more often than you might think), as I was going to my house's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... /PG&E for sponsoring my participation in the walk. (... and my shirt

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can ... normally everyone has ample space to live and enjoy. For example, my current

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on ... am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office. It took me 6 months to really get my bearings down there. Prior to that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005