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  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  too! Check out the website above ... secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House ... at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own food in dorm kitchens?" If you have multiple food allergies that require

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... representing 8 different countries have competed in 27 Olympic Games in 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste sweet, but also promote brain damage. In fact, the word "plumbing" comes ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February ... buy tickets (tickets released at 10am ET and I was very much in Hawai ... overwhelmed, I am so in love with art and music, I am so in love with life, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics ... students. Like its counterparts in math (IMO), physics (IPhO), chemistry (ICh ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had ... , and a few places to buy food."]Stud[/annotation] because it’s too busy to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  . But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical ... -Peruvian fusion. Apparently the eighth best restaurant in the world?? Exhibit B ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... design. Every year, Ring Comm, the group of students in charge of ... details of the 2019 ring include the euro symbol in the background behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... going over the methodology in lecture until tomorrow. Oh, and then there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  website. Although that could be it. I don't think they won't because they ... enough to remember. I'm old enough to remember sprinting home in fear, even in San Francisco, because some news suggested that the Transamerica

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012