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  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little ... 500th word. Will that happen to mine? If I have a really good 505-word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  blood glucose after a carb meal -- high blood sugar is supposed to make ... Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... bought a dinosaur sleeper for a girl. And why not? Girls are allowed to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  catch the shuttle at Next, missed it by a few seconds, tried to run to the ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history ... to sound more authentic was definitely a big factor. How much Chinese ... 'm starting to be recognized linguistically and culturally by the Chinese

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit ... point I'm getting to here is that this argument is clearly a far cry from ... some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  failed by a good amount) to vaccinate 10k people (I was 3 thousand ... listening skills by MIT Mental Health to be a confidential resource for their ... Massachusetts REI sticker, which was given to me by a grad student in my lab who

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  they sold to make a living. They let us come in and see how they lived ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  addition to cell culture, I've also been making a variety of hydrogel ... since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... , and it was up to us to crack the case - which we could do only by

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  station closest to the Neuschwanstein Castle. We had to make a four ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... everyone has to take to graduate"]GIRs[/annotation] and a class essentially ... multivariable calc before, but that turned out to not put me at a disadvantage

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... anywhere (to my knowledge), which makes me sad. Yes, you get 9 units of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by ... . (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a ... fun a little bit, but I'm glad I went to the Premiere, which was a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  CTY, they feel like the opening scenes to a series of intense coming-of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  personalities can work together to make such a supportive community. 3. MIT ... that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for ... like to try new things, you can find a new activity that you love! The

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  lot of your questions if you do have a tough choice to make. My CPW host ... , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so ... Courage-Custer. That got a lot of whoops. It was impossible not to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  schools, I could apply to a range of places (in terms of selectivity). By ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during its first round of data collection, ALMA was over-subscribed by a factor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  (London) to Bristol. When I reached Paddington, I was greeted by a massive ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... me. He closed his eyes and heaved a sigh. Turning to me, he grumbled

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025