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  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my ... friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . I told a bunch of my friends back home about it, and I think a lot of ... you happened to meet me over CPW and aren't my Facebook friend, friend ... Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... kinds of discussions (seriously- one of my best friends is so obsessed ... website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... be all the more valuable to us when we're all retired, our friends and ... experience of cooking a sixteen-dish Thanksgiving with ten college friends

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  . and i'm tired. this year i will leave mit, like many of my friends ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always ... , whether it's writing blog posts or talking to friends or walking outside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15 ... training, check out my friend (and elite mountaineer/Patagonia alpine ... MIT friends post on Facebook. He also is finding it increasingly awkward

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... encouraged. Without further ado, a window into the minds of my friends: The ... know about ytterbium How to impress your friends with homemade poi An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the weekend, like Walden Pond or Cape Cod. My friend Anthony '10 found ... , bicycles, skateboards, scooters, and walking. My favorite method, and perhaps ... . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  phrases that I heard my friends toss casually around. I scraped by with a 66 ... -planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  new city, away from many of my friends from high school, and I just got ... other international students, and I'll meet someone who'll be my friend ... the algebra class where I'll meet two of my best friends. And to think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ."]useless statistics,[/annotation] I am naturally the friend that will always send you my ... friend/debate partner and her mom. It was my second time in the Phoenix ... on the day we got there, so my friend and I submitted ours in a hotel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  this little place called MIT. After my friend’s dad mentioned that it was ... my return to MIT after taking leave this past fall. I’ve been thinking ... , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  my friends about "am I really happy? How do I know if I'm happy or not ... the entire rest of my life that I need to live: talking to friends ... be a lot easier if I had fewer interests, and text my friends sadly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  still be close to my friends in the first three houses. But there was no ... perspective more diversified when my own close friends were in fraternities and ... talking to my friends at other colleges is the dorm life. Dorm communities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  ’t cheer loud enough. At the end of the show, I go find my friends to go ... spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. [caption id ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  again. It’s still moving, just more softly: my friends are getting ... I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up ... surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for ... schoolers.[/annotation] My day-to-day for February was pretty full. Apart from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  probably get annoyed about if most of my human friends did that, but with ... , though, my friend Schmessica* who lived on 41W for the summer was able to ... extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  odd looks--but you also get compliments. One of my friends was in a ... One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... phenomenon--as Condry calls it, the "soul" of anime. This is one of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  started at 10:05. Whoops. At 10, my friend Eric had texted me saying ... The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013