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• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... accompanied by a frustrating mass of release forms. Regardless, it is my hope to now give you a virtual field trip of sorts - into my dorm: Mc

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... fingers of the writer's (aka, my) own limitations. Words, no matter how ... -meant sentences. Those translucent seconds into which I concentrate my love of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  board with my foot, and minced up a baby mouse brain for papain digestion ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... 've forgotten to change my pants during this short time period". One might even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  . Should we do another!?" And that, my friends, is Jeremy. For even more ... to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little jigging of my own. Things were pretty crazy around here last night, especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend ... ... but to my right (unmade bed), to my left (chemistry book), and behind me ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston Marathon. Granted, the marathon isn't until April, but I have my work cut out ... walking 1.3 a big deal. As soon as I entered the store, a friendly

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  -- sometimes in a related field, sometimes a not at all related field. My friend ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... knows my research capabilities as well as what I'm like as a person far

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  possibly relate to this. I didn’t say any of this to my friends, or my ... seeking comfort. When I finally talked about it to one of my closest friends ... this consistently and it is not the “norm” of my life, I actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at ... amazing new friends since, many of the closest people in my heart are people ... me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi ... ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  cool my friends look in billowing skirts has made me like them more ... ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or ... that time. It didn’t help that I never had Wi-Fi at my house and had to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  away. My friends and I had journeyed across the Harvard Bridge into ... unicorns-and-narwhals awesomeness and my ... I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp. Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It ... good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high ... 'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  conflict (my friend Swapna once took 7.013 and some conflicting course 10 ... straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my ... bucket of ice. Since my lab's ice machine has been broken since, like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005