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  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3 ... up to it to get a physical note, but it was all a fairly easy process

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... production than Hollywood, for sure. A fortnight ago, the Frosh went to an MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09 ... 've loved Neil's work ever since a friend recommended Neverwhere to me back in ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... to eventually feel comfortable in this new growth in a way that I don ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  experience what it's like to live in a place where it snows. "I know it's one ... best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  crowded to get to see everyone!) included professors Les Norford, Esther ... fountain. And, to add a little more class, they also had an awesome jazz band ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on days when the wind was blowing just right so that you'd get a sweet candy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again ... to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006