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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... choosing for every phrase. This includes "um," "uh," and any other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... they will be asked for very specific information about you to make sure ... avoiding this question for months, but you deserve an answer, so I will give

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and ... been focusing on that admission decision for months. It occupied my every

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  attend office hours for classes where the problem sets are notorious for ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to ... then. Then. You look up at the board. And... Wait for it.... Wait for it.... "Yes! I got a 66!" Here's what I'm trying to get across

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys ... single sex. For example, my suite is all girls, so we have a single ... Mitra's, for example). The point is that there are all kinds of options

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet ... ! 7. Ruth and I have painted for about 12 hours each over the past three ... vegetarian for a month was so I could write about it on my blog. So, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... for at dim sum, but if you make a request, sometimes they'll serve it at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... for the rest of the day because the spoon is angry. Jason has two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Marathon on 4/17/06--be sure to check out Mitra's Blog for an entry on ... see what's it's like, I'm trying to be a vegetarian for exactly one month. So, for 10 days running, I've been subsisting mostly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A ... Seattle for the summer (Boeing, Microsoft, etc.) and had dinner at The Crab

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least for now, I’m not too worried about that inevitability. Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... statement may not be true: the more unusual ones are often only available for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my ... —  (I’ve been trying very hard to stop using the word “home” for New House ... ’ll orchestrate a situation for you to meet my dad, and then he won't be a stranger

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022