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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an open-air market the other day so now there are a lot of avocados in our

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K ... rehearse Senegalese drumming techniques and spoken word. Perform in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... knew this in the past anyway - not the socks part, the other thing - so ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... positive: In three weeks, there were 29 activities. 29. Most of them involving free food of some sort. And if you attend ten, you are entered in a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... -birthday party in his office. The preparations began last Wednesday night. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... have learned the basic required material and will be in upper ... website, and say that if you send me your contact info I can put you in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT? A NERD? Why, I've never been called a nerd in my life! Good heavens

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now ... , sam.mitblogs.com is in their browser history and this is my first time ... quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and her family in North Carolina. We’ve been visiting relatives, eating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Ep."]tΞp![/annotation] While work week in Greek life systems outside the MIT bubble might refer ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Ξp resides in a beautiful hundred year old brownstone that overlooks the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... perfectly good jobs in mechanical engineering everyone, even if they don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017