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• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  can’t undo actions I took in the past. By the laws of entropy as well ... As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I ... I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  in. I don't know how to play poker, but sure, I'll learn and play. I ... Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... crisis. Literally. I know it's only freshmen fall, but I can't help but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... 2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  a nice, comforting constant, that i can rest in the knowledge that ... 've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours ... social lists can range from small to large. i know some people have small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its ... another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came ... products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  the same time. I've never been particularly good at forming habits (New ... route back at home) so now run 3-4 miles every few days. I can't always do ... * faster than I am, and *very* patient. Reading: In the half hour before I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  was pretty new to me i remember going to this event in Spring '24 and ... trying to debug the worst code i’ve written in my life." hopefully you get the gist. this game popped up in my head today as i was digging through

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  name's Paul Baranay, and I guess you can call me the new kid on the blogs ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... ."]9 am[/annotation] I’ll be in the basement workshop under the Infinite ... otherwise, in years. I was reminded of Phoenix ComicCon, where I’d bounce

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  I want to understand it in private. I can see myself settling down ... Table and buy as much as I can hold. Then, I cross the street and enter H ... purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  math and learn math and write websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i ... -deception." "How can a man live in perfect harmony?" To which YISUN replied, "Non ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... make some decisions? I'm going to ask you to go the following website and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... to a lack of new Oreo flavors in my life. I did try two, though ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... Academy for elementary school. I got better at English and learned how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  things other than music. This is how I listened to new bands before Spotify ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can ... buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022