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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  thing on it's mind, To boldly go where we've never gone before, Armstrong ... well. What is the nerdiest creative project you've ever had to do? ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  girls. It is true that year after year, the rich white kids were the ones voted onto homecoming court and student government.  But it is also true ... it isn’t about me. It is about how one of my friends wrote a viral

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  when it is fully occupied. Start with campuses that are close to you and ... School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  their early 30s to around 60. How is it any weirder that some of my ... point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I ... . After settling in, it feels a lot like MIT--there's so much to do in a ... everything you've done the following morning. It's starting to feel like a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  anyway and trying to keep it from happening. (You’re welcome. =P) This is ... comments: Amy asked: Is it acceptable to use abbreviations for fairly ... It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... surprisingly frictionless. Until it was time for the diagnosis, that is. The ... "]general butt pain[/annotation], telling me to just live with it for [annotation

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to ... MIT rejects people for listening to such whiny crap... - Is it ok if our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... , it began to rain. (click to enlarge) This is my favorite tree on ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... . If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you ... . This sounds awful when taken out of context. 17. It takes a lot to make

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... Development. I am going to help build a satellite! It is going to space! I am ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... 's pan (I prefer it to a regular frying pan because it's deeper and can ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... clearer to me, as it now stands to separate me from my peers. Having

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you ... . *** Update circa 11:13 PM: As it turns out, it's actually really really hard to ... is, you know, eclipsed. Therefore I am going to declare all my photos

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  , it is your choice to decide what to include in your application ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT. So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  memorized. Then it'll be 2013, which is hard to believe. On January 3, I fly ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  interested in seeing how it'd adapt to a virtual format. after spending an hour ... trying to burst out of its shell. the outlines on things felt sharper, the colors more vivid. it was like taking the focus that i was so used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... , enjoy the writing. That makes it so much easier. Overall, senior life is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014