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• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  course 5). Isa '07 is doing a nuclear engineering internship in North ... ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying architecture in the Veneto Area (around Venice)... mainly the work of Carlo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  In broad strokes, my life in 2025 is not so different from my life in 2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... November rule with."]dated since October 2017.[/annotation] And yet, in the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription in your native language. Find a [annotation note="primary care provider ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is ... in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and life.” In other words, to help you! From Jacob: “We believe that you

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On ... , we can smell the garlic. Love is in the air, and it doesn't smell good ... ice cream -- no one's going to buy it if another stand is giving it out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland. I didn't do anything educational whatsoever, but I sure did enjoy the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  ),[/annotation] but all of those things were in the north. I lived close to the south ... the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  , Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... ; MIT does not accept insomniacs. The park put in two new rides this year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  ="ha, it’s -30*C in Moscow as I write this"]“up north.”[/annotation] Between ... this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  my parent's house in North Carolina. My father teaches me about math and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about ... I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  problem sets or 6.002 labs or running 20 miles or buying 843 dollars worth ... in history. Surely, Dr. Sarah Tabacco writing "NOT FLAT" in three-foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always ... the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three-bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009