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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  trying to study for the 5.43: Advanced Organic Chemistry final. Just come ... shoelaces. Then 5 people randomly had a discussion about Magic: The Gathering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  are pretty polite about it. Cats, Smoking 4th West 5th East Cats, No Smoking 1st East 3rd East No Cats, No Smoking 1st West 2nd West 3rd West 5

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... paranoid and got to the bus station an hour early and got on the magic 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with ... facts. Or at least quality video. In about 5 weeks, when I only have a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  morning, Coldstone Creamery unveiled some of their new flavors. These 5 ... jugglers toss their batons into the air less than 5 feet away from me. Good

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  understand just how incredible they were. 0x5. Bon Jovi, Livin' on a Prayer ... Opera, The Legend Of The White Snake, Scene 5: The Yellow Wine. Chinese

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admission less than 5%. The international pool is extremely competitive. A ... . This is a true statement. Because we can only admit 5% of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

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  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2.5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum ... ="120393" image2="120392" image3="120391" image4="120390" image5="120389" image6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  investing in expensive ones."]Brushes (at least one ½-5/8 in flat brush and 1 ... ="I currently use a 5 x 8 in 140 lb watercolor journal by Pentalic but started with the cheaper 5.5 x 8.5 in 140 lb watercolor pad by Strathmore. The

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  : ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 - Maseeh is one of the biggest, if not the biggest dining hall on ... about walking to Baker. Staff: ⭐⭐.5 - Not a lot of notable staff ... ="113004" /] Quality: ⭐⭐⭐.5 - I don't eat at Simmons that often, but I've never had

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

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  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2.5 ... ". and maybe 15% had happened in college, and 5% afterward. and to paolo

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  trail runs and more like 16-20 miles). Full time job, two kids under 5 ... do my morning runs at the YMCA's indoor track. They opened at 5AM and I ... exhausted and feel like laying down and sleeping you'll be at 5 percent (doesn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  than they do for $5 in the MIT vending machines"]can,[/annotation] and ... note = “it’s quite flexible here! I enjoy it.”]4 and 5,[/annotation] but ... 3="77327" /]   5:00 I get home and sit in a patch of sunlight

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  image1="76853" image2="76860" image3="76856" image4="76855" image5 ... city between the hours of midnight and 5 AM. Of course, this was ... there was one leaving at 2:40 AM, then the next one at 5:30 AM. Neither of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  passed down to generations of EC residents. It all started on floor 5E ... : 5E had a dragon in black light paint so facilities wouldn't see it and ... a statement with this, so one day, if you went up to 5E you'd see tens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  anthropomorphic dog that sheds all the time. My first exam of the year was for 5 ... scribbling microscopic words onto the single 8.5” X 11” cheat sheet we were ... bunkroom. Pset #2 (5.13) would take much longer and the preparation for my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  physically by biking, ellipticaling, and swimming about 4-5 hrs a day as well ... when I was just 5 miles from shore, which I knew it would. As we headed ... . How long do you think it will take you?" Ha! Ha! Haha!! 3.5 mile? That

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012