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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  and upperclassmen pick freshmen). Anyway. This afternoon, I needed a ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October, and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  /athletic hype playlists because it is a BANGER. Other than that, though, I did not do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman ... . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ’s like playing in a piano recital – except people do notice when you mess ... I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... , and 2 days ago they were finally unpacked. Inside was a TRAMPOLINE!!1

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  go and watch MLP to find out for yourself ;) Doing a humanized (or ... You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... ? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem. Go trick

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  . So here's a (very abridged) list of things I've been doing:   ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of other stuff. I'll finish up with a list of things I'd like to do. - Do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a ... do sleep. Really. Just not during normal hours.) *Jack Florey is the ... . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually had several more entries partly written, but never got a chance to finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a 2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q&A ... recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  actually do a lot for the community, provide a lot of development ... "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  of doing a blog that's just like, conversations i've been having with ... 's weird that i'm here almost as a vacation r: i'm curious do you on campus ... and now i have a chunk of work to do for my urop but it's the weekend i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... The Nance Effect has become a true on-line community. What does that ... had a mean or negative tone. Even when baited by comments that were

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  wrote a “FREE” sign, because there was nothing I could do, and it was on ... , and I got to do it under my mentor, Jay Scheib. It was a really cool ... exhibitions, and do a lot of cool reading, and visit a lot of different

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  take. A lot of these classes do fall within the realm of [annotation note ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  I've really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I'd do a ... talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  semester, too. Me: What did you do, Raymond? R: I got a lot of Beantown ... sometimes that I'm not a complete degenerate. But I actually do, in fact ... lot.* Spent a large majority of my time not doing work. I'd finish all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019