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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and ... tickets. So the four of us stayed to the side, all very nervous and anxious

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... fraternities and sororities (FSILGs) that I cannot remember the greek names of ... of pictures of plants to the whole school. These plonts included the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  , chocolate spaghetti and BBQ olive oil. I also tried a ghost pepper, one of the ... -Cola's around the world. Lo and behold, my little country of Costa Rica was one of ... "Poisonouse Snakes & Insects in the Area" and nope'd out of there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  to get a generous seven of the 25 questions wrong and still pass. With ... least five. And of course, I got all of those questions wrong. In the end ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  opposed the apointment of a chaplain, and, as you can imagine, a few ... you can have a "first post" war. And like I said, I do reply to all the ... checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... vector originating from each end of the first segment. Connecting these two ... point and you’ll get the same shape. During the process of drawing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  first walked through the hallways of East Campus and stared at the murals ... , and that's one of the reasons I fell in love with MIT in the first place. ... deeper understanding of how the system works, and appreciate the freedom I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  -term: it lies perfectly at the intersection of weather/climate and computer ... , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... ; though the earth science comes in through my research, and not through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... advanced-standing exam and you pass out of it, it's better that you take the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The drummers for the bands Queen and Duran Duran are ... this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... Snively was the first one I remembered because his name is funny. This past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  food first and started taking a salsa lesson in front of us. by the time ... single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... tickets during IAP, booked Airbnbs at the start of the semester, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... colleges recognize and accept this. If I'm admitted off of the waitlist, do I ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

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

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... navigating turbulent waters.  The worst part of the whole ordeal has been the ... from day to day, and every week presents its own time crunch. One of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not ... incredible. They are some of the most talented, accomplished, interesting, and ... of the program, and I was accepted. When I applied, I didn’t mention it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  first time, I am spending a lot of my free time UROPing, and now I am ... along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and ... and friendships in the class of 2020 as well as 2021 and 2022 (….. <

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... Thinking and Data Science"]6.0002.[/annotation]By the time I realized it, it

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  Square (still during said FPOP) and feeling the vibration of the trains ... whole experience and draws your complete focus to the exotic creatures on ... the second-last day of my FPOP, we sailed to Spectacle Island and had an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT alright, and we plan to show you more of that in the coming months, so stay

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012