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  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... flight experience was capped off with retrieving my checked bag off the carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... one involves what I do all this pipetting for: let's talk about my UROP ... my window at work and my window at home.) Last September, I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  , because like most people I kept a pretty good pair of rain boots in my dorm ... . Unfortunately, my excess of umbrellas was of no help to me Friday, because I wasn't in my dorm room last night. Instead, I was at my fraternity. In the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  while and today I finally remembered to pack my camera. I’ll preface this ... checked my email. 8:30 AM-9:10 AM: Walked to McCormick to meet my former pre ... : Stood in Killian Court and played with my camera’s panoramic setting, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  of its regular denizens (Hi, Nance. You too, Ben.) I was asked why my ... things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  tell him it was for my blog, but I thought that would have been awkward. Arrive at Alden Hotel. MY ROOM HAS A KING SIZE BED. Now some people would ... to dinner with my potential employers, and then met up with my family

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I'm a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not only because my TA is Canadian and says "molar mahss") so I'm less

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school friends, and went last-minute shopping this afternoon with my little brother (who is suddenly not so little -- he can drive! weird). Soon my family

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so ... comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... ="aligncenter" width="700"] closing my 200 tabs[/caption] This time, I think I truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the ... every nerd club at my school, but I was still a stupid teen. Don’t be a poser, my 13-year-old brain said. Ride that skateboard around on Halloween

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... my technicals, I'm taking 6.006, Intro to Algorithms, and 5 ... nightmarish stories about 6.006 from my friends and fellow bloggers, and nothing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i. [DIANA] My psychopharmacologist and I Call it a lover's game He knows my deepest secrets I know his name my experience with psychiatry, at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  practicing their choreography on-stage when I responded to my friend: Me ... was quite confused during my own college application process. Although my parents were incredibly supportive of my dreams and aspirations

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are ... underestimated because of my cross-registered class. Why am I taking so many HASS ... relaxed, and I was actually extremely confused. My body was confused too. It

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously ... , are just the coolest shit.) I reworked my schedule to include 24

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019