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  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start ... find was 1999, so who knows how long it had been around before it closed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• 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 ... are an opportunity to network, but also to engage with community — in ... country to set up in the ballroom and engage with readers and writers. Like

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

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  unintentionally danced around in black ice before getting back to our dorm. (In ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... waited in line and saved me a good seat. (How dare they call me inefficient

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... with my little sister in Spain. It felt nice to have the gang back

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... to test and troubleshoot their products. In the case of an access

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  week and it was blissful to get away from MIT and have some fun in the ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story ... people down. To watch mamma Mia tn in main lounge. [5:46 PM] Nicole H. '22 ... single mother and hotel owner, Donna, is about to get married. Sophie has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... gigantic carry-ons into the opposite overhead compartment, you have to get up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006