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  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... country song to sell over a million copies, Vernon Dalhart’s version of ... heading south along the East Coast, imploring to be rocked “like a south

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "LITTLE SALLY! You'd make a great Little Sally." Me: "Does Little Sally have to sing a lot?" Boyfriend: "Not really...but she has a really big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the ... through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... population that strives to make the world better in some small (or big!) way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... (unless I ask them or I can dig around and find a hacker to ask but I don

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “ ... Hockfield, Stu Schmill, Daniel Barkowitz, (who handed out a 100 Grand to every

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as ... Hahvahd University). Thanks to a raging downpour, the audience bordered on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... making the right decision in choosing MIT. This was a peer group that was ... a hard time adjusting to MIT's rigorous academic environment, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... - whether it's making a movie for Michel Gondry or going to see an amazing ... was hilarious. (My A key is sticking again. Maybe I should find a way to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a ... section of Technology Review. I'll print some of it below, with a link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  shivery = makes you curl up like a little animal and sleep better. however ... a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the 2006 World Cup is "a time to make friends." Who wouldn't want to be ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a ... through the alps, he would probably opt to wear something that chafes a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and ... . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... to now give you a virtual field trip of sorts - into my dorm: Mc

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision ... team has worked incredibly hard this year to process a record number of ... difficult committee this year, which is always a mixed bag: it makes our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• 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 ... , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... the law. Ross Finnie, a Liberal Democrat MSP, has written to every

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

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  , every bad test grade, every rook lost to a nasty fork makes me feel as if ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their ... tears and my nose a horrid, stark red. "You seem to put on a brave face a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... need, and get back to studying for 18.02 and making a note sheet that I ... the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018