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  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include ... in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... finally gives in. [visually_hidden]a picture of carpets hanging on the wall ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  interim comfort of "spring" gone all too quickly. I, however, love summer, for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Berklee College of ... of the hanging beds had railings. As you can see in the photo below ... ladder, plus a slight view of the hanging couch behind it, [right] a view

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school. It's like getting an education from the University of Pennsylvania ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020