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  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives ... Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a ... overconfident frosh deciding to take on too many commitments after having it easy ... 20 hours a week. To be clear, letting your hardware decide whether to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... on my Smartpen, and happened to also record the serenades to share with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  you're an incoming frosh, you should make sure to come. Actually, you ... On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were other people on 5th East doing the same thing, so we sat under the red

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  would stare longingly out the window. Then when MIT went back to class on ... thousands of dollars that we need to spend on people. He had some great ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to ... scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  fraternity (for example, because you have too many extracurriculars on your ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'll have until 8:00am this Saturday to decide whether or not they want

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  , and consequently had to spend an extra $10 on ATM fees. My order ... other. I'd gone to the Flour on Mass Ave before, but this was my first ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  screen to screen—it becomes difficult to process what you're experiencing ... , which is home to the most cutting-edge AI research on campus. there's also ... their focus on utility and problem-solving. parameters are rigid, and you're

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  section instructor to refine his or her material for recitation, based on a ... always keep in mind that students may run on a different clock, and to be ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where ... 't get the movie back on and he was just going to drive to Portland. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to ... around the office hoping to waste as much time as possible. I count making

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  contact with someone on the phone…we have a phone number. While we tend to ... correlation to being able to read music and doing well in math. On the music ... eyes. To ears. Two legs. And on our hands and feet, we have five fingers

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... making an impact on their community and world, keep your eyes open for the ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is ... commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  homework, and it changes regularly throughout the year. Currently written on ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007