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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any ... rejected so that the emotion wouldn’t come as a shock. I told my parents that I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... 's only one way to know. (Huge shoutout to the many friends who joined me on ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is what I want anymore. I look at my resume, I look at myself, I look at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on ... see in person since basically forever ago. Hasan Minhaj? In MY town ... set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  game. To my surprise, one of my friends was a co-founder. Downstairs ... by after my internship to watch the presentations. I missed ... . datavized, whose CTO came to speak in my VR class last spring, is changing the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  by my friend Bryanne, is a flexible mat with lights and sensors that ... free foods they serve at networking events), I made my way around the ... (Desi Cart) and an Uber for haircuts (MyBarber). My favorite startup of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  pro. Here he's posing with me and my friends.   Thankfully, Tim ... volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was ... -four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  ! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not ... speaking, I already am a sophomore...o__O Yet, the density of my experiences ... person from who I was. I believe my core values remain the same--I am an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... field extensions to love and all relationships. The whiteboard by my door

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... physics instructor, and Shubhra, a local eco-friendly fashion designer. It ... student at MIT. The design for my first piece A[R]MOUR, modeled by Divya S

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  next ones do, so read on my friends. Read on. **: True story. Pass ... superglued to my finger once***. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve met ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that I mentioned Joe Biden. It was pretty early on during my freshman ... monotonously repeating my name, dorm, potential major, and what state I was from ... a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... candy line by Maria Sharapova (unfortunately my tennis skills have not ... fireplace to work on my clipboard. It almost feels a little bit like MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  . According to one of my friends, Sebastians also dresses up certain employees ... on the recommendation of the advisor for Active Minds, one of my ECs. I ... my God was it Nutella overload. It was Nutella pummeling my taste buds

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  that can benefit: “I would often also emphasize this with my ROTC ... ’s appropriate.” In my experience, humor has single-handedly gotten me through the past three-and-a-half years of drinking from the MIT firehose. During my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that ... wave my cell phone in the air.) Despite sleeping something like 16 hours ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped ... apartment instead of East Campus (I've spent all my previous summers interning ... want, and your friends will probably accidentally bake you cupcakes and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... Hello! My name is Natnael Getahun, but please call me Nat. I'm your ... to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... a Group Leader in charge of getting my group of students around the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... get conversations going, pass around my resum√©, and ask specific

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010