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  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  ,000 Kwache each, which comes out to roughly $3.75). It was incredibly sunny ... tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office ... have to admit, the minibus experience takes a little getting used to. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  . We had to use a lot of duct tape during the build weeks; don’t worry it ... , it wasn’t hard to get puzzle team or the art director, as both the ... , we use the summer months to start planning for Haunt! The summer months

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  my mom's sibilings as can make it (my mom's sisters both live nearby, but her 2 brothers live out of state and only make it back to Jersey ... has two sides. If it seems a little bogus to you that one of the biggest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... that it took her to walk across the Harvard Bridge (which ironically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  horizon for who can say how long, moving away the closer you get to it. In ... will be that much closer. I can't wait to drink it up. ... admissions talks, and it seemed like every magazine and banner was trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  highest limits of their capacity. It is exciting to have to use your brain ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... you love what you do, that doesn’t mean it’s not hard, and that it can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  . 21H.406 quickly became my favorite class that term, and I found it to ... -producing swordsmen to use against my professor of medieval literature? Well, I couldn ... to me in particular, since it was also the same class as 21L.014J (the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  to waive the application fee for anyone who cannot afford it. But don ... early 2169 students deferred to regular action Using my amazing powers of ... weather has been quite mild -- it was nice walking around today. After a

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

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  have a spare copy of Twilight lying around. Since it held no value to us ... , which prevented it from flying satisfyingly, we quickly evolved the game ... I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take ... apologies to Bonnie Raitt, Tim Berners-Lee, and Marshall Herskovitz. It was ... of my essays were within word limits, and yeah, it wasn't great to cut

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  can be a fresh start. in fact, mit is anything you want it to be. i am ... know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... it completely and continue to entertain the fantasy you are now living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  . Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It ... generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture ... , I was quickly excited to hear that they were replacing the chairs! No

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... . Seriously. It won't be that bad, right?) Ran back to 309 lab, where my partner ... -setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  's growing so quickly, that it's going to be hard to tell whether it'll be the ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  student body telling us that we ought to use the break to relax. We didn ... , and so I would have to cram work into the corners to get it done by ... desk, I thought, "oh, maybe it's time to get started on all that work I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video review and blog entry about it. I used that pen all last semester and ... talking about it now? That's old news, nobody wants to read the same stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  , and combining elements quickly. It’s really hard to tell someone you ... hearts desired. (I had planned to limit duct tape, but it was a windy dayâ ... . As it turns out, I didn’t get to give my train stickers to any of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  'm going to be with a bunch of nerds! My friends used to laugh at me because ... you used this as an analogy of yourself!" 5:38 to 6:33: Host: "If you ... Arabic, I think I can bring a lot to the community." Janet: "I think he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  catch our bus to New Haven. It is very sunny and warm; naturally, everyone ... we are going to Yale. It is one of the people from Harvard who are also ... eventually goes away.    5:25 pm - Welcome to New Haven! It is more

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  contexts are too different to make useful generalizations from. Can I add ... season. Would it not break you? Or would you get used to it? Five Don ... . That means I can't be an undergrad any more. And it's easier to throw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024