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  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today ... Red Sox game (first pitch: 11:05am). The idea is to have the crowd from ... (WBCN) and national brands like Gatorade. The runners (including the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  ’t going to jump out of the screen and stop me from carving some pumpkins ... Obama. And then BJ Novak – Heck, I don’t even watch The Office and I felt ... always-astonishing Simmons Hall and a wildly nebulous sky. The colors

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  shoes, and washed my clothes, and Clorox-wiped the entire floor of my room ... back to the comfort of friends and the excitement of many shenanigans to ... Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  ; Alumni goal: Leon Hsu   Sadly, a loss in our first game of the ... , which I think is a bit more clever and less Fox News-y. For the history of ... The Barkowitz Blog, which is both clever and informative on the topic of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To ... next time you think of MIT, the first word that comes to mind… still isn ... ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... people recognized Chris and I there and we got the usual "Hey! Are you that

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  nice person on the other end of the phone said yes, and we were satisfied ... might be exasperated by, and the person on the other end of the line was ... cookies? Alan: Of course I have. The first thing I did when I got out of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  first session, and this time around I'm working with AP Physics. Physics ... made their own version of the video last week when I was away from the ... I've got for you today. Back to the living and the learning and all

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t ... , the start of school: countless syllabi, new Goodnotes folders, and fresh ... of isolation and alienation a lot, particularly during first semester

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  monolithically more befuddling. Of the innumerable places and professions that ... in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... minds as the generators of mailing lists and “quantum teleportation

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my fainting, given my general bravado in the O.T. and clear lack of ... a patient And that’s part of the reason I want to give back to this community. I’ve been taking a lot of notes, and the notebook I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  Bad Boy Records, The death of Biggie and Tupac do not count as defining ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  . For the first five months of 2021, I lived right next to the Museum of ... attendee took of the Patrick J McGovern President Vilas Dhar and I speaking ... Cambridge in January of 2021, it was the first time since I left for college

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  . This is the next (four) years of your life that we're talking about, and ... spinning art family and consists of spinning two weighted objects on the ends ... hall rush and the Activities Midway, both of which took place during

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  categories – summer storage, summer usage, and the weird in-between of things ... . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... and participation is a part of all of the classes, where we often work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... end of the week, and when I told him I didn’t know what that meant, he ... ..” and the hopefully less familiar D - “Minimally acceptable..” F

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... that instead of being so proud to be the first person to comment, you ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had ... hat has reappeared on special days including the first day of school ... to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  fraternity. Going greek has been one of the best decisions of my life. And ... immediately follows orientation, and overlaps slightly with the start of classes ... and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011