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  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  unacceptably tragic, especially at an institution where “sleep is like currency ... Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I ... 'mon, no pain = no gain, right? :D ("this is ten percent luck, twenty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... , whatever it is, it probably involves most of the floor's help. It was neat ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  freshman. This semester is my last hurrah. While my total number of units ... . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... spike (because you've found it, the probability that the particle is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... seemed like fun. Shooting is a useful skill, no experience was necessary, MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... is that you should not attempt to learn everything there is to biology

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is simply a formality. Oh, and sleeping is overrated. Here's just a quick ... over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  river to Boston, which is about 1/4 mile away. And it's pretty tempting to ... Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  is a good topic for the "completely option" essay about something you ... project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it ... to send pictures, is it okay to send pictures after the application has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... college admissions process is spooky and mystical, presided over by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  its stainless-steel exterior sandblasted because the glare is too great ... Street from Stata, the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences building is ... is moving quickly! All of this is good news for those of you excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn ... _sTuerUMxLDrGS8g This album is amazing. Tomtsu was active from 2018 - 2021, and was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... ….why did I come here? 1. tO eXplOrE It is often said that “college is the ... out, but luckily, you can always switch jobs and that it is worth it to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... .679[/annotation] last semester, I use it here to design the PCB. The first step is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  !!), is also my most recent sketchbook because I've hardly drawn for myself ... without expectations? My high school friend Deelia is an art and [annotation note="my understanding is that this program covers user centric

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021 ... religious women. Aisle (≈30k words). Content warning: violence. This is parser ... before, but this is a writing classic. It's 99 retellings of the same story

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... supernatural objects. This is, once again, the token "favorite thing from SCP I ... more, but I think this SCP is more amenable to people who haven't read

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is ... on it and maybe convince you to play it too. Celeste is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... yourself post-PNR, and the end feels really far away. Junior fall is ... fall is exhausting because the end is in sight and you're actively making

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019