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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with ... grasped two other seats and sat down on the new low seat. Then a boy came ... bus outside a gas station. The folding chair appears outside the bus on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered about 1,000 applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... mileage may vary on MIT's TEAL system, which splits a class of roughly 80 ... memorable things throughout 18.02, like drawing ears on triangles to show

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  away on retreats, all of us non-Greek-life students (hence the title; yeah, I apologize for that one) were stuck on campus. This left us with ... meant I went home on Saturday night and borrowed the car. Meet Lucy, my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself ... are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... SAT Prep teachers!) -Conducted SAT Prep sessions (they run on Sundays

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  different jobs this summer but I definitely decided on the coolest job ever. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... "Team Stealth." We spent about 3 days working on our bike and it ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  schools, we hosted a central meeting on Wednesday, 9/17 at a place called ... throughout my time in South Texas (and especially on this drive) is that people ... has FOOD NETWORK (another post on my love for TV to come), but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I ... canceling headphones I have a physics final on Monday (8.01L) so I studied a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting ... into my spleen, the guy on my right bathed in eu d'blah-blah-YOU'RE ON AN ... night becaue you thought you'd get better rest on the plane, when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in ... ! I eat about 10 meals a week on campus -- that is, breakfast and lunch ... wouldn't suggest it, I survived. Actually, I lived an entire week on only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the main sports/pick-up games field on campus. Briggs happens to be right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  This entry chronicles interesting things I did on the middle three days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... children. The sheets of braille were already printed on transparent stickers

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a free Shakespeare production that they put on every summer down at Boston ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  the fact that your lamp must turn on -- and throughout the course we ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked ... K. ‘19, based on an informal survey. (Note from Maya: "This was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  I received the following question on tumblr the other day:   ... for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015