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  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology and the Arts, passing through a 3-midterm, 1-pset, 1-mini-paper week. It’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... other similarly great pains of the human experience. Anyway, here comes the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... Regular Action" which happened to be the exact title of my post. Hm, go

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the world). The issue? I needed a laptop. Although there have been some blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it. So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc ... with the caveat that memories are believed to be strongly modified by ... concerned with boys, but I'll try valiantly to pick out the pieces that aren

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7 ... be a little more thorough than the average MIT student would go, but not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... protest as Harvard has had over, say, the HUDS cafeteria workers, single

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend, we are nearing the end of our series Introducing the Class of 2013. An ... the scholarships* needed to attend this elite Northeastern university

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet; please be patient), but soon the incoming freshman class will transition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s: the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan available to freshmen (The Basic 14)* costs $3915 per year, or $130 per week ... the course of a semester), that day's dinner effectively now costs you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007