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  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town since, yes, we do get applicants from this neck of the woods, and I like to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... dances. Recently, I've had dearth of dances: This semester's place permits ... these grand adventures. (and some of us, we take those times and post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher, the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  to become Thanksgiving. I always say “no” with varying degrees of ... , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  of the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences building, which houses the BCS ... middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... juggling classes, DormCon, and other dorm obligations, I had a fair amount of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... debate tournament in North America" -- by defeating McGill University in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that my Sundays have been renamed “Day of 6.009 Office Hours.” 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  reviews from many many many groups of people (Museum of Science, i ... we had consultations at the Boston Museum of Science where we presented to the biggies (Hasbro, iRobot, Museum of Science, etc). This was our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... that has some sort of entertainment value will get its 15 minutes of fame ... dude!". Now thats out of the way let me move on. Great job with the floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of MIT deter you from applying to MIT. We have this thing called ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  want to study the fabric of the universe! I love Physics. Ahhh ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  think it’s possible, to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on what ... good crash course into what kinds of topics I usually think about anyway) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021