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  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  phone call from Max to my friend Costas would change my life. So my friend Costas calls me up on what I believe was a Friday night. My phone ... in that department. To my friends who read this -- a subset which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... Snively trying to come into my room, it's hilarious. I sometimes refer to the beads as my "Snively trap." Anonymous said: I'm sorry but I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  (several of my friends make upwards of thousands of dollars per semester just ... every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  exciting classes i plan to take, the kindness of my friends, the colors ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i ... role-reversal, my parents were staunchly against my staying home: they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  's been a few years since I'd been to either. My friend and I made the trek ... my friends, explored more of the city, and spent two days in the alps ... Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  I haven't dearly missed my family and friends back home. California is ... — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... the latest—and I thought, "this is great," and my friend looked at me ... myself surrounded by people who cared, somehow, from my friends on my wing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  , and my friend Dave '07 said he actually did use them. I am a celebrity ... 't had a great group of friends and suitemates to be my support system when ... philosophy, my friends, is why I live in a single. 20. Nothing is more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  Sunday, my friend Jen, '08 - Course 14, and I went out pet shopping ... this would be the first pet that if it died overnight, my mom wouldn't be ... -German Shepard mix, Toby. My younger brother got it for his birthday a few years

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  Jeffrey, and whenever I take my friends to meet him, they ask if he’s going ... fantastic with or without meat. My Achilles heel would be Mexican fast food ... exist in east Cambridge. My vegetarianism will probably end when I get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  the railing against my chest, leaning towards the water. my headphones ... , when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget my body was there, and it felt like i was falling, even if, rationally

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  vast majority of my friends were also in that auditorium, and by the time ... and talking with our friends. And I have reason to believe, from what I ... this is because I went with friends. Part of it is because it's actually

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  ! Here are our experiences: Allan's IAP  My externship was in a VR ... ! My supervisor actually placed emphasis on this being a learning ... went to Little Tokyo and The Last Bookstore with a friend who was also in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  closest of friends and familiar faces you still haven't learned the names of ... with friends in Maseeh/McCormick/dorms with meal plans The kind of ... drunk for the first and only time in my life Watching leaves change on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat ... friends Friday. So I stayed up Friday night watching Pineapple Express with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , and if all my friends jumped off the Harvard bridge... well, actually, come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ! But the piece de resistance was watching one of my best friends take the ... change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... I could and observing web traffic data as soon as my articles are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my ... some of my favorite spots in the area! Kendall Square Area 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020