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  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to ... ."]rate[/annotation], but i might as well try to get there sooner than later. [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... shibboleth. when you go to turn your rat around today, please, take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... pressure isn't always bad. Listening to your friends, and letting them affect ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a ... wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... ... So now it's 3:30 and I'm trying to get down and finish this annoying ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  aftercare. Her article goes by the catchy name 'How to dye your hair like an ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do ... term, my GPA would increase by one tenth of one point (MIT only rounds to ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  - answers to all your questions. Promise. (I say that a lot, don't I?) ... Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... -line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... up? We wouldn’t want him to be overwhelmed by a new environment.” She

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  to go to these sorts of labs, you should; it's awesome to see that your ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  hanging around the courtyard will be happy to show you around or answer your ... want to check it out, stop by the East Campus courtyard and help out! If ... Campus, so if you’ve always wanted to dye your hair but have never worked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  perfect, and they don’t need to "make sense" to be taken seriously by you or ... Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer. Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... :30-3:30 PM: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, featuring a presentation by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... thought. "Maybe that's just a curveball, just a tough one to get you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  inner hipster by listening to music your friends have never heard of at ... (assuming that you're a high school senior and you never again want to figure out how to condense your life into 100 words or less), I'm assuming you're

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take ... within to without (simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  didn't get to go last year but I really wanted to go this year. But the ... to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental ... /NR (meaning if you get lower than a C, it doesn't show up on your transcript

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  or biology faculty who received the email and decided to stop by to ... hour to go, and some of my favorite guest lecturers from edX stopped by ... video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... NEEDED to get to Union Station to catch my bus to Charlottesville. I got ... needed to get from Dulles Airport to Union Station -- which is about a 40

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013