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  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant ... Throw paint-filled balloons at your friends in this clash of colors ... [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere else) You're free to eat at any dining hall: the meal plans are not dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a free Shakespeare production that they put on every summer down at Boston ... way, we stopped at The Wrap, a local Boston fast food chain which give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  culture felt underwhelming and couldn’t improve my opinion of the place. at ... best fits and beaming at the camera. there’s always a lot of energy in ... valid to want to create and keep the best memento of your experience at

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  's kind of clear what to do at any given moment, though, and coupled with ... fast and slow and fast and slow at parts, involves some amount of ... think two or three nights ago we were at the Floor Pi Discord server just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  admissions rate of about 2-4% at the time I went). I ended up not being friends ... to hear at this time last year, and maybe it's exactly what one of you ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ! I’m certainly going to do them again! I even did at least one of them ... becomes new again. A Philosophy of Software Design (56k words). I'm at the ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  kicker can aim at the far left side or far right side of the goal, and the ... in awe at how skilled professional athletes are, and another part of me ... and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is-good-at ... extraordinarily rough for me, and at the beginning of this semester, i spent so much

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high ... constant hum of insects at any time of the day or night, so perpetual that ... than flies. Others are the size of bats. Many are experts at camouflage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  awesome UROP at the Page lab, and some of the rest volunteering as a brother ... everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  the feeling of snow on the ground, the feeling of being free and at home ... true of all things. And, if not, at the very least, this break has been ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  . I still cringed at Mufasa’s death, and by the end of the second volume ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath ... My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time ... . Except at MIT, it's a waterfall of knowledge. As I said last entry, I won ... pset, woke up for no reason at 6 AM, and finished the rest of it in under

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix ... -Bonn airport at 10:15 AM, head out for Philadelphia by way of Frankfurt on my ... . Probably fail at that goal. Wednesday -- First day of classes! Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005