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  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  human interaction, my little brother was having a blast, making friends ... Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to ... California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  teachers, my friends, and my mentors all contributed to make me who I am ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... airplane window down onto the earth.  I thought about my parents.  They’re so

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  's just what everyone does." Yesterday, my friend Shaun over at the blog The ... deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... bring, how you’ll spend those last days with friends and family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Philadelphia with my beloved high school friend Shana. See how excited she is ... Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... Philadelphia, but it's the best I've got on my home computer. Anyway, we arrived

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  full :^) ) Naturally, I decided to complain about this to my friend (who ... don't really know why I introduced my post like this, but this dude ... occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I ... polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who ... different languages shuffle past. That night, my family joined 13.7 million

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... seemingly endless expanse of liquid lactose and my milk-loving self is ... grand total of my high school knowledge is quickly being surpassed. But

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything ... drawer to desk every time I want to misplace my pen again. Yesterday I moved myself and three suitcases out of my dorm room, bidding soft silent

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  this. Here's a picture of my new best friend I've already gotten a ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... flight experience was capped off with retrieving my checked bag off the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  and not applying - but two of my closest friends here came from a high ... I'm a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school friends, and went last-minute shopping this afternoon with my little brother (who is suddenly not so little -- he can drive! weird). Soon my family

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  deadline for the Mexico program when I applied, as was my friend Marcus, whom ... really cool adventure. My research internship was part of our MISTI program ... the internships are fully funded. So as for my experience, I will start

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  said, my GPA is a 3.8. When I tell my friends, I think I'll just leave it ... other day I went out to eat with my friend Tetty. You remember Tetty, she ... My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  -Aid, walked to the mall, picked up a box of chewing gum, and went to my friend ... network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  . He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School ... packed and one of my friends reported that he never seems to take longer ... Introduction to Cosmology class My friend Eric G. '14 and I are teaching an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  one of my friends who is a student at MIT. Although he was willing allow ... one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... . Wellar wrote, "H [Harvard] admitted my D [daughter]. But, she'd like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• 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