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  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  . Time used to be so leaden, with the brutal impassivity of cold marble. It’s so ... A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... to, very objectively, determine whether or not you’re overcommitted. It

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  -study, grocery shopping (trust me, it takes time to choose between 20432039 kinds ... simplify when it comes to complex world issues. *I speak from first ... juniors, or even cynicists) can do to combat poverty. Every August in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... ! (you can tell it's mysterious because every other letter is capitalized

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... Twins.[/caption] It was a lot easier for me to focus on sharpening my UI

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... divisions, beginning from very rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides ... their students can use additional assistance. Plus, Bebras' mascot is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... is greeted with generous aid packages. It was also nice to get to ... much, it was nice to see everyone again. Columbia Restaurant, home to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes ... fissile material used to make nuclear weapons. My part in this is to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  feel warm and fuzzy inside. And it makes me look forward to when I can ... , I used to be really into Minecraft. Like, really into it. Like, I ... you want to watch it for yourself, you can watch it on Amazon Prime

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  chose the rosewater ice cream. Today, I head down to San Diego; it will ... itinerary (stay tuned), so I'm looking forward to it. And later this weekend ... (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... Race. Did you use to have a Big Wheel? You know, the plastic tricycle

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  and talking and pointing all at the same time... I can't say it's been ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... choice 10 more excursions to cheap and delicious Korean places than I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... of campus, you see this: which is the side of the Haus. This used to ... of frustration with it. The 4th HNC is still thinking of things to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  it comes to quick food at minimal investment and effort to yourself, I ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... 's; for $0.75 extra, you can supersize it. They offer whole wheat tortillas

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  used to all go out together in New Jersey or even just anywhere. It was a ... printout from Google Maps en route to the Eastern Promenade, as it is called ... offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  . It wouldn’t be sensible to have an instinct to need them anymore. I ... you don’t throw up. “No,” another friend said before I could get to it ... —  (I’ve been trying very hard to stop using the word “home” for New House

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it’s ... . We expected it to take two, three hours tops. We were so wrong ... —was analogous to sending an e-mail to [email protected] when you’d meant to send it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  before boarding our bus to New York. The bus ride was long. It was ... bluffing card games. We make it back to the dorm at two or so in the morning ... next morning to volunteer, and my duties are over by lunch. I use

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019