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  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  Frank   I just returned from a 7.013 Introductory Biology ... , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... pajama pants or clothing that totally doesn’t match. Sometimes I carry a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  When I was a child I was a nerd. (I know this comes as a big shock to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  has not only <a href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html" _cke_saved_href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html">a football team</a>, but also a <a href

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... .03? Um, blogging. Duh. We'll begin with a quick video clip: [A short ... totally in favor of a professor calling me Master Snively. "What an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power a cell phone. A cell phone of the future. We're not actually using

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a dark blue pillow in the store window, just below a tie-dyed Happy Valley ... , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  coolest show ever? Can you imagine yourself becoming a cardio ... world, I'm sure.) A lot of MIT students enter their senior year without a ... 's a list of the requirements: Biology: -Introductory Biology:7.012, 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp, puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... 's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025