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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... , Adam '07, and I moved to D-Entry of MacGregor today. We had been living ... one of those celebrity clubs. Check out our sweet setup: The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard ... , first of all, the T only runs until about 12:30, so without any way of ... mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their ... (and reward) the latter when we read, and that one of my favorite admits

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E ... (E.Jones) instead of E.Jones2, but the truth is, our power really is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community ... preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible, expanding the range of talent categories to include unconventional ones to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020