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  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was ... something to do with my flight scheduling. Anyway, as I see it, I've got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. By a machine, I mean my television. Oh, the movies I've missed since I ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  admissions process from the general masters program). Next, I emailed my friend ... department pay for my dorm room.) This is actually the first year the biology ... noticed that the title of my last entry was from a song played in The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  my ears warm, I brought it along. It proved popular, promoting similar hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week. I triple-proofread my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some eminent CS guy was on its way. Strengthening my plan was the fact that MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  sights as my bunny hat, my $3 airplane jacket, and Mitra's 14.41 midterm ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German ... . The next day Adam took my German I exam--I mean, he took it along with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  all my friends are Jewish. Then we decided to watch Hero instead. I don ... could never miss an opportunity to allude to Clay Aiken on my blog. Hero ... 's bedroom using My Little Ponies while Allison played emo covers of Paula

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in ... . My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I ... 't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened ... , My Front Porch Looking In. Yes, the first one is country! Country isn't my favorite, but I do like it, so I asked my friend Beverly (somewhat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  .[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT ... !!![/annotation]   Here's some fun Kano-lore: Wicked was my gateway musical. A decade ago, my friend Adrien V. V. ‘24 told me I should go, and I did

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran ... ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I've actually enjoyed my technical classes for the most part. Even then, I still

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. First bike, first time camping, first best friend… and my first ... a high-speed camera Attended a baseball game Decorated my door ... some Thai kickboxing moves [annotation note='my friend Xuan L. ’25

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... office hours, I can look out my window and be reminded of the fact that ... ="225"] my makeshift desk (there's an actual desk, but the view is too

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  i had an essay i'd barely started that was due at 5pm. my friend casey ... , concentrating itself inside the depths of my heart, slowly growing as the night went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  I texted my friend, "I feel like my frustration with 6.009 over the ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding ... fail on my own. Stretching my failing muscle and kicking learned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet, one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... of conflicting feelings, now nearing the end of my UROP I have truly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... from a meeting in 37-212. My first class tomorrow is in 34-101. If you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016