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  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... ’s Jane Austen class and it was the highlight of my semester. The lit

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in the traditional style of lieder. This semester Dr. Elena Ruehr, who has

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... over the summer, and by the end of each semester I would be extremely ... morning, and eagerly awaiting the return of my best friend, who flies home

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... spend the rest of the night playing overcooked and drawful in the floor ... auditorium, i took the stairs down and sat in one of the chairs in the corner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of ... scouring sites like Reddit to try and figure out what the CS Bros recommended ... manager. At this point, I was already somewhat familiar with the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  observations of the cake. We're nerdy and we know it. ... I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  distracted. Go to the mall with Kel '10 because we're hungry and tired of the ... .03 recitation. 2 PM - please don't let me screw up the first two exams of term ... term. 9 PM - Check email. Have made it through the first round of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  be capable of divining a chart known as "The Table of Contents" and ... the rigors of the MIT curriculum, living away from home, and making new ... . Personally, I didn't take any of these advanced courses, and I felt it WAS the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  , and a variety of other fields! I was the last person I thought would ... campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  new goodies. The first, and most notable, is the glasses-free 3D top ... table. You can then walk around the card and look at all the sides of the ... are all sorts of different stances and poses you can put the characters

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  stage. Her stage presence and just command of the stage is truly something ... filmed with it during the concert, and also I got the setlist at the end of ... there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of ... started changing colors. I stop by the display of pumpkins, gourds, and ... out of bed with it. And in my hoodie and slippers, I set out towards the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876 ... State Police again got involved, and the maiden voyage of the carboat has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and ... out of the scope of lectures and recitations. Here are my tips for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  at the start of the semester and has not stopped kicking my ass ever ... representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  parents were amazed, and experienced the first ray of hope that their kids ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the ... my life. The hallways were bright, the desks were free of graffiti, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008