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  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago ... , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... , and that even after going through the undergrad application cycle ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note ... remembering holidays by the food…oops"]Dragon Boat Festival existed ... food — but even so, the only words I definitely know are “shrimp

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  everything, here's some quick snippets of some of the things that have happened in the past [latex]n[/latex] months. When the 2021s in ... celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The sun is setting sooner and sooner. It's getting really cold, with the exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various ... solving the problems associated with creating a curriculum and breaking down

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... purchases to the cashier and slide my card and pay for my things, but then the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies, classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I ... sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  the department  It’s been exactly one month since commencement, and I don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... because that's just how the cookie crumbled. That realization helped me beat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal. More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out. (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  Hello! I don’t think we’ve met. I’m the girl who rollerblades everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right ... War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to transform those 24 hours into the best ever. Actually, I slept through quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in Boston, which was one of the most life-changing experiences I've ever been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... innovative thinking are taking a hit. "Because students are so busy all the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006