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  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  have abruptly shed their quiet greens to give way to an explosion of reds ... only there were a way to show you the humble beginnings of the 'net ... a way. Thanks to the Internet Archives, I've managed to pull up some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... really, really smart, accomplished people tell you that you’re about to be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... where this guy says he was trained from birth to withstand pain by ... " turned out to be an alien, who was on Earth to rip out everyone's frontal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am ... all. I want to be cool, too, and it sounds incredibly lame when I say it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  conglomerates (PRO) Efforts by the government to regulate content of social media are undesirable (OPP) "Fake news" should be punishable by law (OPP ... 've found that I've really had to be intentional with how I write -- every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places ... . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  ’t imagine it being any other way. Of course, this solidarity is partly an ... they have to be; having your friends and team mates around to support you ... ’ll be saying goodbye to the seniors. I know I’ve only gotten to know them

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... college. Add to top that off, this would be my last major round of finals of ... wasn't to be back for another week, as were most of my other friends, so

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  least 100 pages. I replied, there's no way I'm going to write that much. I think I'm pretty right about that. It will end up being more akin to 40. In lighter news, by this I mean I'm going to talk about things

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... Scholar Program, which enables current graduate students to enroll at
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  -eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the line outside the gallery ... May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don ... Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  have demonstrated, there are a lot of awesome UROP experiences to be had ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car ... to do, and as a result I realized that there is no way in Hell that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  just felt drawn to the dorm. The next few rankings were taken up by dorms ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... to just be themselves without looking down on them for not fitting some

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  , but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print ... , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... Summer Program – Summer Programs are a great way to make good use of your ... . But if you have the skills to pay the bills, you will also be able to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be ... lot. (You can call my parents if you want to fact-check me, but be ready ... I choose to cook has come to be as defining, for me, as the music I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to see your ID. "Uh...." "You need to be over 18 to buy Tylenol." "So ... Square) So which way to Harvard? MIT student: You're at MIT, bro. Kayla ... I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  , and why all of this means that you will be able to get the scientific ... time you specified; and the data will be made available to you ... that could be a very legitimate observing proposal. I volunteered to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... stream of happiness that seems so hard to come by, thankful for this pure ... the time to give yourself a chance to breathe once in a while, to be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be ... the way. It's pretty easy to convince me to go somewhere, and in fact it ... long enough for us to feel reasonably safe eating it. Sure it took way

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010