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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  be mainstream curiosities. Recently, someone from my high school threw ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I ... because this is what happens when my mom tries to take a picture of me. Mom

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I ... blogs, but I don't want to ruin someone else's chances if my applying isn ... ! After a little consideration, I sent back this response: During my first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It ... good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was ... background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  sets and no commitments other than my UROP - which gives me quite a bit ... little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... wit, I... Threw a late-night Diablo II LAN party with my fraternity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions ... my UROP advisor, Linda Griffith, with a variety of projects pertaining

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my ... bucket of ice. Since my lab's ice machine has been broken since, like ... trudged upstairs to scrounge up some ice. After filling my bucket, I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  my scalp, but in others, it feels like January started last week. And ... my pursuit of doing everything feel even more dire. That feeling of not ... experience, I've come to realize that my obsession with trying to do more doesn

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby ... thing? Someone let me know in the comments 😉); my favorite Hayden Library

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... .” No, that doesn’t mean my homeland fell into the ocean, or was destroyed ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  taking different MechE classes the past two years, my classmates and I all ... didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I got concussed my sophomore season and was returning to play soccer, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship ... discovered that origami encompasses so much more than that. During my first ... intricate structure. The Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (FIT) is one of my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  that didn't flatter my face and blunt bangs I cut myself. It was spring break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my ... regularly bled over into my life and their victories regularly uplifted me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... the things that occupied my mind at the time was hydrant, this project

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  , I didn't really know. But here's what I did. My first plan of ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... say as I check my email and look at timestamps), the 7.012 staff

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  . (I keep putting off my Art Scholar application, so alas, I did not have ... got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing ... , weekday hours, and so I fill my newfound spare time with other things. In ... from Chinese recipes that my mother sends me when I ask her for help

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021