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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your ... as your Athena locker. So Ben sent me a link with info about how to ... looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy the video games, have no fear! They're hosted online for people to play ... , you should go out to the library and get a copy now! It's a great read

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  ). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central ... 'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to ... " groups started to form; however, there was one semi-official one that we

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students & alumni, and the generally curious), and now it's a reality. So, if you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the ... , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  to do this. Find your own rhythm. Experiment. Record your fleeting ... layering of your favorite passages. It doesn't have to make total sense and ... now, getting on to dusk, and I am thinking of heading home soon

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  and buying all of your other meals gets really expensive really quickly ... guarantee! "Lastly, Au Bon Pain is going to be your best friend, as they are ... 's Dixie Roadhouse Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse Not Your Average Joe's Claim to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get ... . Similar to my experience, you might end up living in a quad your freshman

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  “Congrats, Ceri! So you’re going to MIT?" to which I could only respond with ... 's probably smart." Because when you get into a capital-g Great school, you’re supposed to be ecstatic. You’re supposed to be proud of yourself and your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more ... , they exceeded their maximum occupancy and had to close at 11:30 to get ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  action or get involved and have an impact on what you want to change. I ... about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... have to deal with in your whole life. Imagine that it is summer and you’re

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... better way to validate your acceptance to tech school than to read and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... rocket ships. They're sick and exhausted but they still want to get up and ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  the middle of their second term (although you're free to switch later if ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  getting my work done despite drooping eyelids and an intense desire to ... , to be comparing your school to a home. Cue eye-roll. I have been ... , in addition to getting really hungry, I also get really sappy and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... crazy dance icebreaker. I had the time of my life getting to know other ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009