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  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... publish a few of each of our favorites below, and I've noted which prompt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18 ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... volunteered at a bunch of Asian community health clinics. Now, I write MCAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  the top of the Ridge Cars 3 and 4, led by Jackie S. '14 and Cappie P ... Ridge sunrise hike I was a part of Car 3 with Jackie. We were all ... Hampshire, to camp outside of the MITOC (MIT Outdoors Club) Camelot Cabin.  I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the ... can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... , the Saferide Cambridge West shuttle (after 6 pm), and as of late, my ... years of inactivity. (Two out of two residents at Next House agree: it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But ... ."]what if we used one of these languages instead?[/annotation] All of these

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my ... needles down my throat. The path I run is full of stoplights, conveniently

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020