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

  

  free Shakespeare production that they put on every summer down at Boston ... way, we stopped at The Wrap, a local Boston fast food chain which give ... , the class didn't prepare me at all to analyze this production, but I did

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  the back cover, it said that Pinker was a professor at the Massachusetts ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... the performing arts at my high school. I made all 8 shows in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but who had never commented. If you don't mind, comment at least once - just

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  it makes me sad."]more recently[/annotation]). Despite having been at ... out and eat at some actual restaurants near MIT. Plus, Simmons Dining ... ="The name of the restaurant does not help at all..."]almost like a drug den

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... graduate, with at least 1 in each department along with various other rules ... class is located in the T Club Lounge, also known as a random room at the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. [caption id="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  specifically from rural and small-towns to experience life at MIT and gain ... other before spending the next two days together. At dinner afterwards, we ... about the students’ lives at their schools, and we got to tell them about

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... building was unnecessary. My time at MIT was not just a phase, but a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  After a seven-ish month renovation, the new Varsity Weight Room is now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at ... note="don’t get me started on when there were two teams lifting at the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  recommendation from people who can write well on your behalf, or to at least have ... knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During ... discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... grow so much during these months at home. I’d have a job, I’d make lots

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... hasn’t been explored much with scientific rigor and simply remains at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... I’m most certainly trying to find my place and I’m not at all sure how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... looked at me slightly expectantly, and I finally answered - “Six years ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... [/annotation] and stopping at least five McDonald's; a tragedy that would cost us 125 ... 's alright now, fortunately."]we lost Jonathan at mile 32 to some hip flexor

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve ... would make me feel bad if I messed up. At my level of block cutting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple ... stared at the blinding lights from the stage in front of me, I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... they looking at? We got closer. The glass cases held reptiles: snakes ... , their scaly bodies indistinguishable, at a distance, from long fallen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who resolved to do at least one film screening before graduation. I was lucky ... projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  completed two years at MIT, and I plan to graduate after I finish four years ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I ... . We marveled at the cheap, fresh produce we had gotten, and at how much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022