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  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... to leave. I love it here. IHTFP. My name is Joonho, but I also go by

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... repeat the whole process until you're happy with them. Give them to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... ). Then we had to cut the wood, which meant we had to plan a design. Here

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  left to shovel, but they shovel the slush anyway. Oh, and by slush, this ... may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... ," a fairly obvious nod to Hedwig et al from Harry Potter. A few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  future? What is going to make me happy? Frustratingly, a shocking ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... units to be considered a full time student) might be the solution. But we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... make theirs from melon soda and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. [gallery ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I ... myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  essentially No"]enough data[/annotation] to make a poster. My mentor gave me ... of my project is REDACTED"]enough data[/annotation] to make a poster ... up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I ... to a clothing consignment shop. I learned many things about current

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... helping out with a cultural show and tell in preschool. That's a smol me to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... champion our cause, and to make changes in the department based on our ... sitting next to the incrediblyy nice Susan Whitehead. Ahh! P.S. A shoutout

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  a few teams to MIT for HMMT, a math competition run by students at MIT ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• 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 ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  of mean to him and call him a dumb, weird dog, he likes to follow me ... build a decent relationship with him by verbally reciprocating the ... been changed to avoid incrimination by PETA. But uh, yeah. Be safe out

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  motivated by my desire to not subsist on dining food on a daily basis ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof ... longer dread"]rain.[/annotation] i'm definitely going to be a little

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019