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  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  have sprung with a vengeance, and yesterday, what I thought was flurries ... a huge rowing tournament. Each college has several men's and women ... formulas. At MIT, you would get a more condensed summary of this theory, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... and 75 units last semester and as a result spent April and May in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 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 ... colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... luck would have it, my high school made us submit a "district writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  . Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no clothes are allowed at this party. I'm not a big fan of public nudity, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  I've been thinking about certain things a lot lately. I attribute this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It’s been a long time since I’ve so thoroughly bungled a test. There are many ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of ... the shocking realization that there was less than a week until New Year

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... classes or strangers at a cafe"]one structured life drawing session before

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and ... /blog-like.   PAGE ONE PANEL 2 A young 14 year old girl, Cami, with her hair

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have ... particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... . a fragment: narratives as mnemonic devices a story: i spent last weekend eating photogenic desserts with a friend who thinks everything

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... reading an MIT Admissions blog post by Michael C. '16." Anyway. Around a ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013