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

  

  seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i ... clothes i wore last night to see [annotation note="i won't give any spoilers

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

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  , but forced myself to despite the agonizing pain. I made it to the cabin ... 'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  excitement, a mobilizing force that will propel me to want to learn more for ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  experience. Skating forces me to ruthlessly prioritize, structure my time, and ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained: Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... like "Guys we should go to Montreal". It happens. What follows are the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide ... engineering experience. The class is intended to emulate what engineers might ...  Chris M. led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from MIT to become the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  fight these forces of negativity, to increase the net positivity in the ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... May, Olivia Rodrigo came to Boston on her sour tour. The online ... was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  CPW website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If you have ... 're excited to have you as our guests! Here are some (hopefully) helpful hints ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  roommate before in-house rush (at least according to the Next House website ... promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A ... challenge yourself, but if your school simply will not allow you to take AP classes, we cannot expect you to take them. Also, not being in the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  revolutionary force doing just that.   Class of 2018, I invite you to open up ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  force everyone to recycle. To encourage him do his math homework, we ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  that we had actually hijacked the harbor patrol ship and forced him to ... an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  forced to bid farewell to Sooner State. (Still no fish tacos) El Paso (A ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... route of the flight (Phoenix to Tucson) was over the desert? Just thought

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  were forced to take a quick break from our tournament since they were ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... . They had beaten five other teams, but lost to Ed's Elephants due to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  features.  i am happy to report that spotify has only continued to satisfy me ... new music tracking software to complement my spotify experience. in the ... playlists i've added to my collection this year: loading docks - i consider

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019