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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... 'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each ... the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... the lack of meaningful updates recently; my life has been tremendously busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... t-shirt or turtleneck and didn't come from the Army Barracks store on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... 's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the gym in the morning, and affectionately listen to Alison bemoan bicep

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  my new year's resolutions. Since I didn’t blog that much during the spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  . The way that MIT’s academic calendar works is that the Fall semester is from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to interact with you over the past six months, starting with all your wonderful questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I walked into my dorm, struggling with my luggage, I barely noticed the five-story structure just across the street, with balconies jutting outwards, bearing in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an ... day. I'll be celebrating feijoada, capirinhas and the beach. I'll be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the Y Combinator (http://www.ycombinator.com/) program, which is still ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  . Go!" The girl wants pictures, let's give her pictures: Ruth Miller '07, the newly-elected Undergraduate Association Vice President, gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post is so different from the version of me that last posted back in ... how they think I’ve changed over the last year and a half. I think I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  Over the years, we have occasionally published posts from students ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020