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• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a ... document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  'm 100% that nerd in the front row, excitedly texting my parents I am now a ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual ... fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever ... Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... 'm not stupid either. After exchanging my tickets I decide to hang out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger ... all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  was Tuesday night that I headed over to my beloved high school friend ... , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a Hillel pin in with my admission envelope, with Hebrew letters that roughly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  they’re not “fundamental.” One of my friends once described  [annotation ... , my grad student friend group has a train-related discussion every few ... telling my friends about it for days. For my next experiment, 21 cm radio

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  quickly that freestyling with my friends and being able to perform ... ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... my energy and excitement into a cohesive format, so I would pretty much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  scheduled on my Google Calendar - they’re the spontaneous dinners with friends ... endless loop. Welcome to season 18 episode 98 of my life: “Hala’s Escape ... lectures, but for the routine that came with them. I wanted my Google

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  , and the laughter of friends walking three-aside. But they’re also alive with various displays of creativity and mischief. These are some of my ... .), but my favorite instance was a particular rendition of “All of Me,” by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  . Living so far from friends meant that my siblings were my main source of ... . Winter meant my dad starting the cars 20 minutes early before we all piled ... long navy peacoat adorned my shoulders in place of mismatched gloves and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  peers. Yesterday, my friend told me that he thought I was unusual for an ... and realized that repeating years of my life with full knowledge of ... . My answer is always because I love learning, and I love taking classes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  telling a [annotation note="you all are my friends yes? yes. good."]friend ... wholesome photos of Jay, a cat that my friend Jenny G. ‘22 recently adopted ... the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  music room with my friends, like no one was watching; of seeing all of ... particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  GSL lead and my friend :) The weather was a little indecisive about ... 're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed my friend Martin, and later MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. Regular readers of this blog may recall my post, last April, about MIT and the Marathon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  wrote to a friend (oversentimentally as always--that's me! No limit ... sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut off, but when light comes in my window I wake up optimistic) and I ate

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... volunteered abroad in high school, in Guatemala twice and India once, shaping my ... passions. My first major is electrical engineering and computer science

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  all, an institution of learning!   My friend Noa '15 playing with our ... was spent taking full advantage of my week of no commitments by ... first week was needed to adjust to my new schedule and the loss of Pass

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company ... startup, because it highlights why my classes are helping prepare me for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012