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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... . "weird"? Except for Simmons, which is across the athletic field from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a ... splashing for a while and the harp plays festive arpeggios that lead us into ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... program that will save 200 lives for sure. In the second version, one ... . The overall admission rate for the class of 2009 was 14.3%. (From here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... ended up being pretty excited about the concert for two reasons. 1. Fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... to start charging $17 per month for any non-MIT calls (I believe this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken ... front of the stage, which was necessary for that crucial scene where ... Guildenstern with an inflatable pool toy, swims around for a while, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17. No test prep, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... questions I still have for myself and the things I think about as I search for ... from waiting for Early Action decisions. Maybe these thoughts can help if

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , runner. I signed up for running mainly because I was not coordinated enough for team sports. Even though I am six feet tall, I always found ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  have enjoyed it thoroughly, so I'll reserve judgement for later. So far ... theory for people who know some amount of basic music theory." We're slowly ... Choir (6 units): I'm taking Concert Choir for the third semester! I really

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note ...  happened. It was the hardest year for me academically. I was filled with ... person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn ... the semester, and I’m still extremely grateful for his leniency and open

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be ... , today is a day for writing about vegetables." Ben and Vincent wrote two ... the news and think pieces and editorials for quite a while. And after

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024