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  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  ' nowhere. "Middle o' nowhere" being Lake City, Florida, where my dad recently ... joking - this is my father we're talking about. (Hi, Dad.) I drove back to ... you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  halfway done with my Junior year, there are only 2 weeks left until Final ... waiting for my early action decision from MIT… *cue psychedelic time-traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... upset when I got grades below 90; my first semester at MIT, I learned to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this ... live with thermo by my side. Then I spend so many nights getting all the

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite ... dangerous activity. I lived in DC the summer after my freshman year here, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  , what could we do?) Today, the MyMIT Portal team had our weekly meeting ... of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches turned up great news for both of them. My Baker House dormmate Dylan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to ... two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful ... second reason, though, is personal. The summer program I went to changed my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... get my act together before the semester starts on Tuesday.  The last time I wrote a blog post was July 2020, when I had just defended my own

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  entirely derailing my finals schedule— I’m going to pull one tarot card to prompt my blog writing today: Tarot 101 Before we start interpreting, here’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what ... elsewhere, and when my MIT waitlist decision came back, it felt more on equal ... hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By Ron Padget   Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word ... change") so quickly that it literally surpasses my belief, charges right

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... , so I stayed inside. Then sun came out so my friend Gabi N. '22 and I ... of doing my usual Sunday-night-meal-prep, I had some Popeyes chicken

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my suitcase. Oops. I end up just looking through my notes and thinking through

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... there, and then almost missed my flight back to Boston. I grew restless

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015