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• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  , and MIT Medical hands them out for free. So, the five of us all went up ... Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to ... friends from high school marching band decided to come up to the Boston area

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  Women This is a pretty big one for me actually. I grew up really hating ... years, but I never ended up any good at it. I took guitar lessons for ... I'm kind of iffy on, seeing as it's really hard for me to pick up new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  . Partygoers could purchase drink tickets for 33rd cents and present up to two at ... start setting up for the alumni barbecue. We were surprised to see a '76 ... Conner's Porter Room, but since the dorm is closed for renovations, it took

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... crippling laziness and go for a run in the woods behind my hotel, but until

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  had prepared itself for hours of hunching over a computer, debugging ... answers down on paper because I had given up on actually understanding it ... then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival, so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  cards are actually blue and yellow! The two-letter abbreviations stand for various capabilities of engineering leadership. For example, IR means ... Regional Championships, the qualifying meet for NCAA Division III National

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... the free tour and food you'll all have to hang out naked together for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy ... significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  was something I’ve been wishing for a long time: That I would wake up ... . He got really excited and we signed up for a more manageable race: a 10 ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  finally ended last Friday. I woke up for physics and then after emerging ... ! The next day I woke up bright and early for the first panel of the day ... (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  up where they make you sit and drink lemonade and eat cookies for 15 ... I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  ended up scrapping before the firing, for the sake of not cluttering my ... ’t actually get to pick up my pieces for another month or so, depending on the ... , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  throwing the eraser up and catching it. Fortunately for the exercise, my ... , for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student." Me ... enjoy it." Rational Part Of Brain: "You like sleep way too much for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  numbered stickers for each person they shot, going from 00001 and counting up ... for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to ... me explain why. Make a guess for how many people got their flu shots

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  up, and learn from mistakes, too. I had to search for new options, and ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... . __________________________________  Part 1: Freshman Fall I’ve only been here for a semester, but things have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  , the biggest highlight of the conference for me was definitely meeting up ... into Lilly C. '17 at the conference, and she was willing to write up her ... Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014