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  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  friend contrived to get into my room, grab some books, and run them over to ... for an MIT student!). I kept in touch with my friends mostly via text ... A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  semester, with the initial target of training for a 5K with my friend. The ... Metropolis bounced around Boston with my high school friends during ... summer as well and moving into my dorm as soon as I was able. Overall, I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  was having my breakdown in february and multiple friends reached out to ... west campus friends). or more recently, when i was in the throes of my ... ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  -American friends would jokingly respond to my shocking love of country music with ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United States of America three years ago. Packed all my belongings into four

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... colorful checkered blanket in my backyard, diligently flicking ants out of my ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing-my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  . Regardless, I definitely have a lot to be thankful for—my roommate, my friends ... I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  down the ladder. This was the first bug I'd seen all semester--my friends ... 's officially Midterms Week™, and I feel like I've barely been keeping my head above the water. -- Last Friday I finished my work for the week and the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  even mean by work? My friend I could not tell you ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... , someday. I set out feeling that a year was not enough, but my mindset

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  . Shoutout to my friends for going out of their way to make this poster ... the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes ... tips and tricks. But here go my own: sidenote: i’m not sure if i’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  author of Wait But Why?, eating dinner with my friend, and then ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... agree. However, for the purposes of this blog and my future ones, I will

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... sign with black letters: 'Having Abandoned My Search For Truth…I Am Now ... laughed and said "ahh, I see" as though he didn't believe me. Recovering my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is ... revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the ... I've done this year really matters for my next steps -- graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  with my friends who were on the meal plan. Overall, it is a pretty solid ... ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn ... , Sabrina?” I’m here to tell you my secret; it’s cooking videos. First, let

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  different than the one my friends went to on a school trip. I learned a lot ... My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and ... I have only spent seven months travelling. Therefore my experience is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... on sensory overload :)  My parents weren't really excited that I'd gone

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  alive. Now, I'm 19 and at the school of my dreams with friends and a ... 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

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100 ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025