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• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so tired and so stressed by the time they got me on the table and ... about sending a sick note to my TA, which they normally don't do over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery ... assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  try to get them interested in the program.” The others had similar ... hours later, after getting the chance to see an extensive collection of ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with ... brilliant Matilda) by third grade, so I feel pretty familiar with the author

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  fancy thing called the Internet. Smaller bands can get their music out ... One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  felt I lacked here). Nothing was worse than getting to the beginning of ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... logical reason as I walked to Walgreens and bought the most river

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  scenery BY ZIPLINE! Zipline is the way to travel, let me tell you. I even ... I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about ... . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  message of the musical can be summed up by the phrase "There's More to Life ... . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  around 7:30, RingComm stood up and it was time to get the ball rolling ... 's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... COVIDPass was working), and I hung my coat up. Then we walked right up to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... conclude that nearly everyone who entered the contest is fated to become an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  opportunity to get advice from an adult and a wise upperclassman. Also, the ... are sun and community, conveyed by the dorm's colorful living spaces ... the bat, I'll get it out of the way that Next House is far from the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... songs - it flows, and holds together by the use of little musical ideas

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  scholarship, getting to know them, and talking to them about college. The only problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... the flavors in the vaccination cocktail.)   Not to scale.  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011