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  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price ... , Julie Banda from MIT Medical. Guessing Game: What was my final auction

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel like my marriage to MIT was formalized. Sounds lame...but it's true. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  OLD - spent my birthday reading apps 3) My app reads have been particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my ... implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it ... 've clearly ignored this one, sorry!). My desire to continue with my series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got his name, but in my mind, he was already The Hispanic Guy Who Speaks ... taking three more to fulfill the concentration requirement. While my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  old! I only graduated 4 years ago, or 1 MIT generation ago. My yapping ... ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... , all my friends started posting, and it was honestly so nice to see all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise [embed]https://youtu.be/jdiaBZM0ZAo[/embed] on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  This semester, I took three classes. Two of them were math with my ... of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... “I can count the number of assignments I have left on my fingers.” The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with my friends and their family. every saturday or sunday my freshman fall—i can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for ... later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the ... , I'll share them here. I would like my sophomore year to be less rough ... -name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  in the 8th grade, my first one being a free general admissions concert with All Time Low at The Grove. The moment my hands gripped those barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... night, on average Four birthdays on my dorm hall (one of them was mine ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked into MIT with me back in 2015, my brass rat says 2019, and despite not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General Tso's chicken and my friends' 麻婆豆腐 ("ma po dou fu”) or my birthday party

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016