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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... just felt drawn to the dorm. The next few rankings were taken up by dorms ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for ... project of a reasonable scope for an undergrad to be doing; no, seriously ... had a mentor pull me aside to gently tell me I looked too pretty for

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  was getting really sick of it. People were always coming to me for help ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... interests and I'm always running around trying to join some new club or put

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... Cambridge, where those hiring for entry-level positions were happy to reject ... After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Chris Peterson "Damn you for being so inspiring, you're going to get me ... , pretzels, snacks, and other things for the runners to grab on their way by ... 't necessarily going to be fun for the rest of the race.  It started to get hard

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  was coming to boston tomorrow for the long weekend. i felt truly ... . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... of taking operating systems. by tuesday, i knew i wanted to [annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  guide to getting groceries as an MIT student. I’ve been quietly ... ) If you’re willing to make the trek, you can buy produce for a huge ... where you can buy groceries from local farmers and get them delivered to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  "passionate," "empowering," and "moving" had been used by Japanese to describe ... soup!), and ask for "kaetama." Once the waiter brings it to you, slide ... competition stems from the fact that "katsu"　(カツ） is a homophone for "to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of ... most of the interns who have been here for three to five months are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance ... , refusing to make decisions of my own and simply waiting around for the end of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub ... of applications to read, followed by an MIT Club of Boston ice hockey ... ..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... to be done. By contrast - but keeping the military analogy - here at ... 's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while ... re-organizing the spices to be in alphabetical order by Latin name or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... going to be challenging for me, because we're already dealing with things

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit ... useful to know off the top of your head when doing audio production; for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor the coast with balloon cameras for months -- or as long as it takes for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  through Boston Common - we watched Sharks3D at the New England Aquarium ... where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... soon joined by others, who seemed to have had the same bright idea. We ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009