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  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... . At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... This coming semester will be my FINAL semester at MIT. FINAL FINAL FINAL

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  , Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1965. ----- "baby don't worry / you are my ... Philippines (on gastrointestinal worms) later, I'm back to working on my Ecology ... same types upon which I took my SATs and my AP exams, almost a small

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  this term with my friend Nina '10, so while my collar isn't physically ... the building numbers are and why my recitation ('scuse me, "section") is ... -groomed and well-mannered Ivy Leaguers, my knotted, unwashed mane that serves as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn ... around (meaning, spending quality time with my parents, because this last ... school with you. (But not my mom, because she already has a college degree

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... everything else, most of my classmates aren't too excited about the prospect of ... spring. True story--last semester my fellow UROP Adam '07 produced a paper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  is to say, my high school journal) wherever possible. This might be somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... -TWO AND FIVE-TWELFTHS." My high school was a decent suburban Ohio public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  places, like design and build a vision-capable robot. I love my friends ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... !" Roli, I hope I answered the "why" part above. :) As to the rest...My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  years older in the span of a block; the horizon melted from my thoughts ... overwhelming sense of doom would trickle and pool in my chest, like syrup ... nights in the library. My calendar is empty save the occasional social

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this ... health aaaaa aaaaaa trap me in a zero-sum game, as if my disinclination for ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner ... just loitered around a bunch of places, which is my favorite way of ... missed my flight from London to Paris (first time this happens), so I took

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up with blogging to my current life, but words are hard. Nothing ... ="101765" image3="101764" image4="101763" /] I took my last final in the Spring and ... . Here's some of my favorite sites: [carousel image1="101775" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is ...   I just want to see as much as possible, whenever  My jam ... didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  of music as fun sounds to tickle my brain. sometimes screamy metal best ... [/annotation] of my question. I might as well have asked the group, “do you listen to ... ’ve once described my music taste as all the different flavors of angst

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that is required for my major, so I had to retake it. I failed not just one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  reason behind my decision to come here was the people: the people I'd met ... be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... of my friends asked me “do you believe in true love?” and my response ... my life consuming media telling me that i was supposed to date

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... monotony of sending these emails, I changed my email sign-off for almost ... 0 (Normal Sign-offs) Thanks, Best, These are my default email

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content.”- Anonymous Reviewer aka Jeremy in my last post. Some (including my own mom) may ... with this subject at all. If this occurs, then my brain shifts back into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022