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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... Yesterday, I wrote to facilities complaining about the noise from the ... and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  education will be done. I wonder how it will feel to feel that silence when ... enough from the cove for the air to be still as well, still and silent ... lake and curved over the mountains. For once I had no schedule to follow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  practice for a few hours to play the sport I love. There’s nothing better ... ’t tell you how much this means to me. Immediately having a group of friends ...   Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  . Before I start I want to thank Cami Meija for hosting my guest post! This ... programming microcontrollers  and we went to the world championship for robotics ... up for that last time. I was devastated that I had to drop classes, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc ... mercilessly for the rest of third grade. This tends to instill in people either ... for the show I had to wear stilettos and a backless slinky gown and sing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  an ungodly hour for me to still be awake. When I have three tests in ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... people I've come to know so well over the course of this past year. For

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the ... lose, end up dancing, and having a good time. Funny how these things work

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on how you guys are doing by calling all 390 of the early admits (sometimes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers ... for 2.005 (remember I have to take that next semester if I'm aiming to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  , and manage to look awesome every day when they show up (on time!) for ... without including the word "I," to compensate for its overuse in this one ... -as-all-get-out love for brains means that people never fail to remember my major. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  I thought to myself, you're right Hasan. It is pretty dope. Not for ... everyone. It's being able to stand up for what's right without fear or second ... .” “But if [the refugees] are willing to wait in line for 2 and a half years

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort ... tell. It is for this reason that I try to be as tolerant and lenient with ... didn’t think I had been super committed to CPW activities, but I actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... need others to help them. Having to fend for myself for the last two ... Harvard Bridge to have dinner in Boston, and a trip to Star Market for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  experiment. How do we perceive emotion? The faces pictured below are either ... -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How ... ballad, "The Subway Express" depicted the Interborough as an arena for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to ... -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009