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  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... couch. There's not a lot like flopping on the couch at home after a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10 ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  MIT 2016 Surprise! Midnight servings of ice cream at HackMIT 2016 Hack ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  much more emotion and meaning! At the end of the musical, I was singing ... hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  this is college, and this is MIT at that, and there are tons of smart ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  of you on the road as well as old friends who were at the conference ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n_friday.shtml Power of suggestion (Sam): One way to tell if you belong at MIT http ... cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what ... 'm reposting it here: So as you're probably aware, MIT has a dedicated group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  looking at the list of companies that recruit on campus, or lists of alumni ... As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits, are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... just barely coherent. There seriously isn't one line of dialogue in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once

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

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  by side, and coming in and out of the laboratory at all hours of the ... spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011