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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  into my gears of Decision Making. A friend, desperate to see each and ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... decided that MIT was the place for me, I spent my weekend traversing the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  miss corn mazes. I miss my family. I miss my friends. Luckily my ... Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence ... time...no pressure" text from my dad. See, I had all these awesome blog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  optimism, I turned to the Athena gods. My awesome friend Phil '07 taught me ... , and I diligently take pages of notes each class to supplement my reading comprehension. All good, right? Not last Tuesday, when I left my copy of Ulysses

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... - no breakfast from mom in the morning - managing my own money - no ... from suburbia to an urban city - doing my own laundry - no car Now while

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  my major, my classes, my friends. i am inevitably tired most days, but ... scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete ... disintegrates into Juans upon Juans. I was then shown my quarters for the next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... to some friends. I forwarded that email over to some of my friends ... bumped my friends to look around and feel the moment: that was what Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  Harvard Yard [annotation note="My friend and I did this during WECode and ... ’s. (Apart from that sentence being inherently funny because of my friends ... rent. It’s really unfortunate, and I’m crossing my fingers that local

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  a bummer week, and my days were punctuated with a lot of downs. But ... A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes ... taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the ... . Our mechanic was a really friendly guy who picked up on the idea right ... around one of the tent cities and wait for our friends from last night

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  help you with?” I brought the story to Alberto H. ‘17, my best friend and ... . A friend of mine and the co-chair of the Black Students Union (BSU ... . Recommendations Rasheed Auguste May 5, 2016     In my mind, every BSU Co

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  don't have any sort of systematic data, but my friends who were admitted EA don't seem to be stronger students in general than my friends who ... So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  time, which I've indoctrinated my entire family and my friends from home ... ="attachment_112082" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] my email invitation to the pop ... + my plushies[/caption] (On a side note, it's always nice to discover

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  audience member in my own life? Recently, I dictated to my friend exactly ... to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  atmosphere of MIT -- a good majority of my friends are CS majors and always ... late. I saw my peers and my friends ace coding assessments with ease, get ... (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all ... was as good a time as any to have my first Boston Pops experience. I, unfortunately, did not take my camera, so you'll have to rely solely on my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love ... my life was on pause but also on an infinite loop. I didn't like LA, in ... forever. This summer, I've been much more satisfied with my life than I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  host to sweeping views of the surrounding area. I flew to meet my friend ... Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical ... internationals at my hostel. More churches and panoramic views, but this time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018