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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make ... resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... 've been everywhere in Boston and everybody is sold out. I just want to have ... , bordering the south. In the middle, innocent bystanders began to notice what

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... take-away. Earlier this year Eliza asked us to install wireless Internet on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... wrong? In the leadup to bread day, I shifted my nervousness to the bread ... make a big change in order to grow. But you should always have faith: you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  reminds me of my to-do list, which is in my to-do notebook, which is ... : What percent of MIT's total floor space, as in basement to top floor of ... relevant or difficult to complete and que in infinite postponement. So to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... 24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone lost their minds. If you haven't listened to it yet, please go do that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  get it out of the way and not have to worry about squeezing it in later ... never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  way of getting to know them. Let simmer overnight. In the day time ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... unstoppable need to shake about? Oh yeahhh. Case in point: during this weekend

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  borrow in the next 15 minutes?” Real blog entry coming soon to a theater ... edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to an Oregonian best friend studying abroad in France. Lots of eggs ... gentle reminder to myself. I've been deliriously happy at this school, in ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014