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  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  . How is that lucky?" "Simple, they run away from me with a negative ... at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  that a course invented then [the 80's] is still so dead on in what ... conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  is that I haven't really found a solid pset group for this class, but I ... that this is bad. I have never been known to make good decisions, though ... , and I really enjoy just getting up on a Saturday morning and doing as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  , in a wide array of languages. I just couldn't believe that so many ... foods is listed in kilojoules in addition to in calories. Hallo again. I've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... ! :) Anyway, that's a quick update. I'm currently sitting in a big lounge chair ... back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... for the pleasure of it. This is probably something that I shouldn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing ... Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on ... I know that the instant I saved this entry as a draft and it showed

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  friends asked me how I was doing: The passage was so narrow that I had to ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... " (though given the size of other passages in the cave, that's not exactly a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  disagree with me, but this is just how I do it. With the egg in the middle ... sticks that could no longer squeeze a lemon. Please, do not separate us, I ... that I do need to explain the egg poaching in more detail though. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... everyone proud. Finally, since today is a snowy day, I wanted to leave you ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and ... I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights ... wonder that they can organize all this defiance of death in a scant two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  make a path. This is where Alan will point out that I’m very bad at ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  notice that Cyclops is kind of a total tool in X2? I really liked it when Jean Grey vaporized him in X3. That was awesome. Also, I like how at the ... would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... indulgent :) Just sauté some spinach (I use frozen) in a pan, add 2-3 eggs

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t ... ambitions, because that's what usually happens. I know a lot of people were ... is glorious, as you too might realize after spending 16 hours in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  yet. We'll know when they do. Already, I'm aware of how ensconced in my ... that spills outward invites warmth with it. Kamoya and I head in, closing ... -up pidgin English, as I take in the apartment. I wish him a happy birthday

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  used a hammer --- and I’ve since realized that engineering isn’t even all about that) Greek life (I’ve been in a sorority for all four years and ... abroad/travel with classes) being a teaching assistant (in which i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  .  That day is unfortunately a long way off, but so far I’ve had at least ... , 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... that I did was a flurry of activity—building balsa wood gliders, touring

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  unedited list (that is, I didn't exclude anyone with "lesser" jobs or ... of college. I hope this entry is a somewhat helpful introduction to ... its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005