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  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  sunny warmth with a spring picnic. It was a day made for frivolity. I ... sweet potato fries, which I've been wanting to make since I read this MIT ... . Meanwhile, I caught the perfect lighting and discovered that everyone I know

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The reading and selection period has been intense as ever this year, but I promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  Hellooo I’ve been home for winter break for almost two weeks, basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the ... . Where I live, we got 2 feet of snow overnight. The blizzard crippled

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I ... , which means I'm usually awake before the sun rises. During the year, the ... time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... you're interested, like I've been threatening to do for some time, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  photos I did get were cool though. Oh well, you win some, you lose some--though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was ... scavenger hunt! Enjoy the fame and glory that comes with it. P.S. I'm trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West ... main thoroughfare this morning when I woke up at 7:30: I am seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... made banana pancakes, Hannah made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and I ... ). While I was doing problem sets with some friends at Senior Haus, Gheorghe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall ... middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a 2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  I am back in the office, did you miss me? :-) St. John was awesome ... . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin ... components. While I've been gone, what have I missed? Any excitement? What was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible moment, Registration Day (last Tuesday, September 7). I know some people ... abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you ... ! [caption id="attachment_88114" align="alignnone" width="275"] Shuli: "wdym, i ... further consideration, I have decided not to quit my day job

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to ... pick up some snacks. apparently they sell hot chocolate bombs???? i saw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I ... the most fun I've had in literal weeks. I'm so grateful that I've had ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017