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  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can’t make my lab printer duplex. Can you come fix it? No. Anonymous said: SOMEWHERE… there’s a photo of a Burton-Conner room also…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  you that you're doing it wrong. Don't be an escalator n00b, be courteous

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, “Anyways, could you please do an entry on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome. :]” Yeah, sooooo, I’d love…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  Machine Shops, Part 2 In case you haven’t read it: Machine Shops, Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I’m alive. Yes, I haven’t blogged since JULY. I know, I’m a horrible person. Please don’t tell me about it, because I already know, and I feel awful about…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ifestyle.shtml What MIT students do on Friday nights (Laura) http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It’s been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories- which will be…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  Wow. The last few days have been absolutely insane. You see, once I found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven’t blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I’m making up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the many, many comments I’ve received the past few days: On Monday I got back from my…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as much schoolwork done as possible. I knew I wouldn’t be getting much done that…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I’ll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Since I haven’t updated all week, this entry will be super jam-packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam-packed week.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  true? n also.. If we register now, but when the time comes, we can't make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the application form,syllabus of the entrance examination n the fee n

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  ?si=df951980c8194492 We had a good crew. I planned the trip. Daina N. ‘25 drove ... . ‘25 was our backup-turned-main driver. Oris S. N. ‘23 is a massive

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  , table 12. 8.02 was just like how I remembered 8.01: L O N G. Two hour ... 'm actually not officially enrolled in which a n g e r s me because I'm a CMS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  basement of N51, cajoling the biggest water-jet on campus into cutting giant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023