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  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  about the new graduate dorm and the plans to turn a current grad dorm ... a row house on Commonwealth Avenue (two minutes from Fenway Park.) The house used to be a doctor's office and home, until MIT scooped it up a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  drove two hours to New Haven on the morning of and two hours back the same ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  . On Friday, everyone took a break at lunch to hear Dean announce the ... inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  ugly mechanical monstrosity on the left to the more modern and sleek gate ... spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration ... each other on the mountain. They even had a hill which people skiied in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... to C++ and then optimizing it to run in reasonable time on a Raspberry ... hope I’ll be able to attend the launch this summer! I’m also working on a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  .064J/21A.339J (Documenting Science Through Video and New Media).   ... how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... assignment. I was trying to capture the sunset on film. We also explore

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  winning science fairs, some spent them cow-tipping. Some like to sit on the ... think of it, this is totally creepy in a Brave New World kind of way ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if ... . While I've moved on a created a new life for myself, they have the same ... advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  tour flyers and taking pictures. there is someone to my right on a ... motivated by my desire to not subsist on dining food on a daily basis ... boys and play [annotation note="our hall liked to play mao on a near

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  you're asked to put a list of extracurriculars on your blogger ... hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... application? Is it okay if I send this as a reply to question 14?" Yes, #14 would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , and because if an FSILG moves to a new house, as some of them do from ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my ... .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... , and to have this piled on top of everything else that's going is enough

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th ... MIT's leadership on this issue, and its continued commitment to need ... As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... Building's roof! It would be fun to go somewhere on a plane. How about ... 's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  gave a speech that made you cry. You went on a senior retreat to a camp ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive ... bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015