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  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  was awesome. I'm learning how to cook. And the food came out really good ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  began asking us how they too could do their own fundraiser for causes they ... I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  just how little MIT has changed, both with regard to its charming aspects ... 't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one ... mathematician, I wasn't sure exactly how I would relate. I had seen the theater

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the ... that because it'd be funny to write a serious justification for whatever ... their stores, so I’d imagine it’s important for them to capture the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... decided to slump back to my room in defeat. I sat down in my desk chair for ... conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  to Mika ‘14 during term and is Ceres ‘14’s for the summer. 4-room: 4 ... this: 5-room, large half: My home for the past three semesters has been ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ="However, honorary Pirating Certificates have been given, like to Matt Damon for his ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  how to cook).  I'm fairly sure I caused my mom a great deal of stress ... , mom). Well, I'm happy to report that I haven't once eaten ramen for ... cooking for yourself is dragging yourself out of bed each Sunday to get

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to ... you could possibly want to work for. The database has the contact ... Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss ... at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... us for the day when we may have to take out a real enemy bunker. We put

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much ... ; I decided to paint mine for the senior who had comforted me when the ... floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

   this semester, I set some goals/rules/guidelines for myself. I didn't stick to ... hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... all three of these rivers trying to decide. I think this is true for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one ... 're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  vibrating with anticipation for the event, to hear everything he had to say ... just a weird nostalgia trip for me. I'm even surprised I'm managing to ... . And we all just want to be watchable. We're nostalgic for moments that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  phone for half hours at a time, explaining how I just felt incompetent and ... neglecting to take care of myself by taking time for myself, and ignored the ... new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... Africa, actually. As for the application? At first, I stressed about it to ... - it seems possible for her to double up on jobs and tell me which APs to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006