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• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  cold has been replaced by stifling heat and humidity, with the two week ... a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... regularly since I was 10 or so, and my mountain bike was far too small and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs. Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  /wing/entry/house/floor, your frat, your sorority, your independent living group, etc. and celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... already a HUGE line. And when we got inside, Kresge was already more than

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... ago my personal dragon has been pathetic and droopy and largely sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the ... site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... and small high schools, cities and villages, and performed what amounted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... , because both EC and BC didn't have air conditioning in individual rooms and ... (Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups) rent their available

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on my mind lately. (And by subject I mean aw

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008