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• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  actually got to meet nisha & the person who lived in my room before me ... tried to help me find the spider but it had disappeared. It reappeared in ... went to bed. -- I woke up a few hours later and saw Abe and Nghiem in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... -way ticket to Boston in August, cut off most of my connections from home, moved ... it exists, at least not in the clean, sequential way I want it to. The

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  want to take! I'm even excited for the required classes, which is really ... though this class is a requirement, I'm going to enjoy it a lot. One of the ... this class is super cool. According to the first line of Petey's syllabus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get ... is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... flasher in the grocery store. (Some days my life just is not normal ... -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , the eating is much cheaper than the MIT meal plan, so if this month goes ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... turned left and started walking dejectedly to the hanger in order to put my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  . Once said novelty is firmly affixed to said vacuum attachment, the lid ... basement in the middle of the night, I moved to the side and acted like I was ... route -- can you find the buildings?) Ready? Let's go! In that door

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... personally think it's one of the most beautiful pictures ever taken in ... ). "Is in the habitable zone" is a very different thing from "habitable

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... schools. Have you decided which school to attend in the fall? D: No. But it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  ’t become right ‘under some conditions.’ There is much to be said about the ... members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive ... you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you ... . Things like rearranging the plates and cups in our cabinet in an artistic

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  I just click "Entries" and go to the next page. It is fairly cool that ... HTML tricks just to see what MovableType is capable of. Next on the ... brand new admissions post is on the front page for you all to read.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  let me take the rest of his advice to heart because there is so much ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... brought to you. And then last thing, and this is the thing that's the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... administered by the medical school. I hopped on the CT2 bus last Friday to go buy ... every premed in the world would give his or her right cerebral cortex to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006