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  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  do, and I think it's just so incredible how well they manage their time ... service programs, and I can't wait to continue to do all of these cool ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... !" "Hell?!" says the man. "But, Satan! I thought I was already in hell. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Mmmmmmmmmm, you can practically smell the radiation. I think what really drives ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... check out this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you can have a guest entry ... ) describing your experiences. I'll also throw in my Harvard Book Store frequent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  family during the holiday season. I love them – they can be connected in ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  , Megan F' 19, me, Jessie W. '19, and Vivian Z. '19. Can't even remember how ... esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out. ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  how I should've done things differently. I guess I’m not alone in this ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in ... the beginning of the rest of your life. I know that when I sent in my ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their ... Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005