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• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  relieved that I wouldn’t have to give up Taekwondo or good chocolate at ... the one I have affectionately decided to name “sponge ... it was finally time to pack it up for the flight home, I wished I could

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  distribution in Haiti and having no luck. Jean Francois sent us to Madame Elise ... charge there did not have permission from his bosses to speak to us, and as ... returned outside shortly afterwards full of excitement. "You have to come in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I ... tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to ... behold, a hack! I didn't have my camera (I was going to study, no ... required some extra work, some time management, and it was different than I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  Dragon Boat team and were introduced to the sport. We spent some time on ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT experience if you aren't sleep-deprived. But you don't have to take my word ... , and I would love to meet you, so please come visit while you’re here! I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  about wanting to have things proved and all, so I definitely like the idea ... night, and it will be my first time doing anything even remotely close to ... By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted ... , wrinkled button-downs. In the time intervals uninterrupted by traffic, the ... . How could it seem so real to them? I closed my eyes again. Don't you

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  senior, so she doesn't have finals. Today, Mitra awoke me with a knock at the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for ... snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  takeoff time. Well worth the spring shower, although I could have done without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  (though the subsequent traffic seems to have taken down Dheera's site ... Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... prefer) circuit. First, he appeared on DriveTime: Then, he appeared on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred A forum for students who were deferred.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  break I started looking around for more fantasy books to fill my time and ... construct an argument, with sources, about what would have happened. Here are ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... miraculin stays bound to our taste buds—fifteen to thirty minutes. The maximum

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related ... .) On Sunday when I heard there was going to be yet another snow storm ... courtyard, and most importantly lots of snow! By the time I woke up the next

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  was time to blog about somebody other than myself and Rachael Ray, and ... thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006