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

  

  when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life ... feedback about my writing is an incredible thing. So I'm asking for just a ... you're curious about my application essay, that's fair game too

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved. When I came to MIT, I had no clue who I was going to meet and who my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome, but I'll leave you with a few thoughts of my migration southward. 1. Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  my Ohio/California suitcases to Maine. (Yes, I took 2 suitcases home. My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... , trust me, it was raining harder than it looked). My brother still had a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... absolutely no common sense about what classes to pick (and apparently due to my phenomenal cosmic bad luck!), my midterm weeks tend toward the crazy. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  of each and my first impression. 10.213: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for ... hard." 10.28: Biological Engineering Lab -- This satisfies part of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester, because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But ... -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my magic wand and have all my stuff moved for me, I would.) My boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best ... visit him for his 20th birthday. Before I made it there, I experienced my ... out to the dead zone when it came to cell phone signal. When my cell

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can ... major or minor with Biology, which is course 7. My freshman year, I lived

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  I'm sitting on my couch with my friend Jeff (who, after graduating ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... Red Sox (definitely not true). I didn't realize my error until I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  ’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  appear as the same verbal upchuck. hello! my name is cami, i'm 17 years ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  don't really know why I introduced my post like this, but this dude ... occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I ... 't have to! But even my 3 class schedule was crushing me. Namely 18.100B. I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... walked into my former chemistry teacher's office (he was now the principal ... hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... appreciated. In the next week or so, I’ll be starting my job as a residential ... you may know from my first post as a blogger, I did Interphase last

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018