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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank ... 's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  semesters to get through! :) Anyways, just a quick update about what I ... I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you ... to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... that slow you down but also get you to think, to introspect, and possibly

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  I get to think about what goes on through an increasingly tech savvy ... get to make them! But what do I actually do? I've been learning a lot ... Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... 're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the ... So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... ended up getting a Beta Fish. Pictures I managed to snap anyway ... . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in ... I don't want to paint getting deferred as a purely negative or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... light dimmer is a bad idea! the heat gets trapped and things begin to melt ... tendency to wax nostalgic when I get lost in my own thoughts, and going from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  Floe, not as a product to get rid of ice dams, but to create channels ... students were divided into 8 teams. Each team had three months and $7000 to ... &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  truck to get their cannon back.  The students were met by MIT students who ... the cannon so that they don't have to worry about it getting stolen ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... with enough pepper to heat a small house.) You get the general idea. I ... To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  —we overshoot and get too cold; too little—we take forever to reach 67°. Do we ... certain level of pressure to push myself to get better, but I also want to ... got my first pull-up!! 😎 I also tried to get into running this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology ... slight yet intense feeling of excitement at getting to try out all the ... to justify getting it? Will I use it well? But, wait, what does it even

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021