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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than ... . This is purely from my POV as a recent grad school applicant. (I left ... to that question is “something that is no longer worth my time,” a fuel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to MIT intending to be premed. My father is an urologist, and when I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  entered MIT. Now, four years later, I get to post my own version - courtesy of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... like an orange.) My goals this REX are special and new: I’ve already built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... grief. I remember that in my first year my whole life revolved around this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  filming randomly with my phone, but I hope that I'll get more comfortable over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life ... 's certain parts of campus or food or whatever! Otherwise I'll just do my best

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things ... plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... while, if not ever. I’m sad to leave behind my childhood home, but I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  a little bit about what my job is like from November through March ... application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully ... my head I imagine bumping into you on the Infinite Corridor, asking you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... my favorite books, which translated into a very extensive fanfiction

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the ... of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to ... Destiny kitchens, my room, Cory’s room, and Random Hall desk, I downloaded

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about ... decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... , each of my classes has three or four midterms distributed throughout just ... food – I was surprised with free candy before two of my exams! I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the ... my advising seminar yesterday, and I’m currently trying to finish an 18

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... ground for challenging other aspects of myself beyond my name - hobbies

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012