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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  students in high school and college; my friend Rachel did TASP at UT Austin

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don ... : Yup. Me and Shaye and our friend Dave has been working to put this

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  proud of the hard work some of my friends (Christina, Weywey, Tony, etc

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this ... party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... something yeah Just like… I’m up lol Nice I forgot to take my sleep meds too

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... , but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every night and get some exercise, much less work through my Personal Issues TM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  not being as close with my dorm-life friends since I'll no longer be ... got a bid...and actually joined. I don't regret my decision one bit. I ... joined it for the people. I went back and forth a lot between my decision

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  treated this way. Every week I talk to my friends and each one is doing ... I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while ... having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  , this isn't for everyone. Some of my friends are finishing up their senior ... less than ten students. My abstract algebra course is actually a reading ... with insightful questions. I would rather enjoy my time at MIT in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my clubs, my classes, my research. I could talk about it, but the important ... year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... waiting (not scrolling on my phone or talking to someone, but just existing ... true, but also if I leave my mind to its own devices, I often descend

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  friends when they’re only taking a reasonable and recommended amount of classes per semester. My entire time at MIT I've been fighting off this imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  across the Pomona school district. My friend Jamilla, with whom I used to ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  end of the night, some of my friends and I ventured over the Spring ... a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  of the Bob Silbeys here. He wasn't my mentor, adviser, friend or ... . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove ... bubble tea for my caffeine event (note: never hold a confusingly named event on the fifth floor). I only wish I'd had more time to spend at my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  popular-my friends have gone to Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and have ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... -minute bus ticket purchase, and some serious luggage-lifting, I made my way ... ’ve been here with my mom and grandma; it’s absolutely gorgeous: The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  experienced my first two college birthdays. Okay, I should clarify that too: *I ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... belonged to Esther J. ’14, my roommate, who turned 18 last Friday. As her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010