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  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... walked back to Burton Conner making elephant noises of triumph, feeling ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  something clean, you're gonna have to clean it yourself. I occasionally go on ... Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  myself up to make progress. Oddly enough, the precaution-filled spring ... , since you couldn’t skip a workout and promise to make it up the next day ... play your instrument) for a few months or forever; listen to yourself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset button, drink tea, realign your chakra or your qi or whatever you want to ... your general state of being right now. Many of you are excited to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  ... because you have to look and smell your best when you're researching ... they used to say on "Cribz," that MTV show where you show off your room ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  i choose that will still be meaningful and make me memorable to the ... felt a lot less intimidating to answer, so I wrote about making oboe ... something. Despite regular practice, I failed to make reeds of an acceptable

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  music taste and am totally qualified to make this post.    Here ... IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... making your own landscape (hence the "Scape" in SandScape) inside of this ... at C++. I spend time tweaking the code to make the 3D display more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  country during IAP can be a great way to expand your global horizons without ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... student makes answering supposedly “normal” questions into rather elaborate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows ... .01: Introduction to Neuroscience Right now, you’re reading this post. The pre-9 ... things you take for granted – consciousness, your ability to store memories

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to ... that when I am sitting on a train. Reading makes your brain better ... this place to be reading these words, you have done your work and want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  take care of everything.  They will e-mail your professors, talk to you ... suicide around the world, write love on your arms!! I tried to spread word ... .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... , Ashdown, and iHouse also have Residential Scholars.) When Shannon came to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... and head-scratching, because we were able to put them to good use. Also ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  , and passion. So, choose your activities wisely and try to maintain some ... and employers who make it easier. But, if you want to work, sleep, and ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  is that YOU make the place. So you want to be a hacker? Hey, guys ... , UROPs don't fall from the sky and land in your lap. You have to look into ... that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications ... I need to begin my romance with it. Anyway, this probably doesn't make sense.  I'm not sure it makes sense to me anymore. Unlike this post, good

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015