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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  curl up in forever. What if I did poorly in my classes? What if I couldn ... growing up, or so I’m told), freshman year I joined a handful of new clubs ... applying for summer research positions, finishing up classes, and winding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer ... lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and ... bothering it and I wonder what it’s been up to and whom it is working for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  cultural climate in which I grew up. All those internalized standards became ... my town and we have family friends in the area who were happy to put up with us put us up for a few days, so I headed back to campus about a year

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  for the holiday weekend, and Jen ’13 came up with the awesome idea of ... —use this information wisely), and headed home to shower up. Because remember ... just catching up. Robin took a year off last year and went to Paris for a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed ... explore the classes that I've signed up for (but also many others which I ... , so maybe I will end up giving this a try. 1 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch break

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  the different fraternities), you might end up with no bids at all by the ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a ... . I remember staying up till 6 in the morning doing my 5.111 homework

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this ... such, I didn't realize that the faculty speaker was finishing up his ... !" Oh. I didn't have time to zip up or button my pants and I had a beach

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the ... walked up Bowery Street until we could read the signs on the buildings and ... ! We walked up to the registration desk with our forms filled out, our

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  1 and 4. Here's a schematic to clear things up: Ignore the skunk ... . Jared came up with a strategy that was absolutely brilliantly simple, if ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted ... Marathon looking up at my time made me feel like I was standing on the ... to cheer you on. Maybe your parents promised to come up and watch you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... on the internet ends up turning into a human-shaped flaming hot Cheeto ... . The wick itself does not burn and instead soaks up the fuel, which is

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

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  in more ways than i would have expected to. i grew up with this ... parting, coming up with new words and stories to tell. there is such ... prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  mental pain instead of physical pain. It was free food, so I made my way up ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... called Aia (aiya). I tried to lose letters, got too into it, and ended up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  years at MIT, I gradually opened up to people, developed some new hobbies, and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... bad for me to show up as a transgender woman”. I pulled back as much as

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  1960s, and I ended up doing my graduate work at the same observatory ... whose eyes are glazing over in lecture because she stayed up until 6am ... that things would rebalance. Sure enough, I made friends, signed up for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... have ended up together as students, even though we overlapped and had ... your parents will be behind you.  You’ll grow up, and one day before you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  the months leading up to decision day. I could play with absolutely no ... who I’d stay up late with, chatting and chasing loose threads down ... up my hook and yarn again, like a retired bank robber accepting one

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  first time. And yet again, when I woke up this Wednesday morning with the ... one. I'm talking Shake It Up days. I'm talking KC Undercover. I ... course I've kept up with the more recent stuff, too (Spider-man, Dune

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up with blogging to my current life, but words are hard. Nothing ... things I've been up to:   Congressional Baseball Game The ... Sunday just because each week brought something new. I ended up buying a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  of an idea that was. I was going to bed exhausted, then waking up ... .[/caption] I dropped 6.101, but halfway through the semester, I still ended up ... extensions in a row because the work kept piling up and days where I skipped

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023