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  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can ... Datebook" section of the Boston Globe: Teenage film buffs can go to MIT ... Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  morbid picture of MIT to you. Let me be blunt, my friends. There will be ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  backdrop. Picture perfect, of course. I began to forget about weather ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... nights I've trudged back to New House in the wee hours of the morning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT ... in a lot of pain, but she liked talking to me and I liked talking to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  they have some sort of puzzle, and i didn't really have time to think of ... on mae, who recently dropped out of college and moved back to her ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this ... Nicole R. asked: "What have been some of your favorite classes at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  .’ But I wasn’t that brave. I was lucky to find that one of the reputable parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people ... have not, of course, spoken to a single Course 2 whose eyes light up when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... line coming out of the electron pointing to the next       orbit.   ... whiteboard. Her back is to the panel and we can see an angled side portrait of

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

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a ... Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... tiles that indicate the entrance to the red line. I thought of October of ... person, now, in any number of ways, if I had to replay my life. More

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... (still maintaining our distance) to get a better sense of her size and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... scorching hot, and a few of us even pulled out our umbrellas to shield ... all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not ... I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot, and I'm going to try to get to all of them. The Senior Haus/East Campus

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... about him to add anything new to everyone else’s descriptions of him ... black licorice. i know how to make a lot of balloon animals and hats

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010