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  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It's different than the school year. There are many many many reasons why it ... == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... as the second-greatest moment in television history. If memory serves me correctly, #1 was the moon landing or something ridiculous like that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... 'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  fifth grade about my future aspirations. Now, you can't argue about the first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies, but the rest has changed, uh, quite a bit since I wrote it. I'd say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  asked, "Now that the Interview Information is posted on the MyMit website with the EC contact information...what do I write/say when I email ... . Don't be shy; the ECs are used to people wanting to schedule interviews

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  the person that I was two years ago, the ways she’s changed and grown ... typed out the entries that seemed interesting to me. This IAP I trimmed that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... times. Luckily I’ve caught the culprits for this issue. With the simple method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  entered the MIT admissions office for the first time during [annotation note ... , I was ushered into a room with the other Sin Limite attendees. I had arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  , inspiration strikes and fast   and it feels like the blog manifests itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  posts, but here are the more easily explained things. Classes Inference ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... like I was burnt-out before the semester had even started, and it left me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... " align="alignright" width="300"] this is the bike lane! It is very wide

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... attainable (it wasn't), then that was the goal. If landing a big

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... seeing the way that this person took the heat for their weight made me ... and headstrong as this person was reduced to merely their number on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  on the blogs. This semester I took 3 [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021