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  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it'd be a good ... , free, and a bunch of friends were going, I decided that I could suck it ... getting onto the ship. This is when Jared '10 and Yuki '11 thought it would

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had ... cluttered desktops that got too unwieldy to organize. And then, I saw MF DOOM died, and I was shocked. Not just because someone died, but more because

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  not realize how good I had it. Last year, I saw Of Montreal (twice ... region of Turkey. I appreciated how far I was from anything familiar when ... quite unfazed by things I would have found difficult only a couple of

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I ... the B-. However, in retrospect, had I not worked hard, maybe I would ... before coming to MIT is that I would be working all the time. Granted, I

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  ! Keys janky? Please fix it. I'm begging you. The B flat key doesn't work really well. How am I supposed to play music like this? Come on!   ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  have sprung with a vengeance, and yesterday, what I thought was flurries ... finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... metallurgy). I am finding that Cambridge is much more concerned with theory and

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  joined them—I decided that going to California with a ton of people would ... until a few weeks ago, i'd never had a college spring break (spreak, as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  amazing fact. (You may hazard a guess as to how many times I've heard the ... super-fun, but I would never characterize myself as a good, or even ... , inviting me to their interview weekend. So I guess that would be four all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  underlying theme of lost love. On the other hand, I would reply that it simply ... is brownies. Wednesday is moon cakes Thursday is an oatmeal cookie I ... treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... . There's quite a bit of concern that this apartment would prevent the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to say that all ... would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus ... Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to learn anything new. After all, I had pretty much memorized the admissions

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT ... that I was certain I would fail, I stepped into the shower to be greeted ... when I wasn't totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year ... assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week, I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . How much fun would a roller coaster be if it didn't scare you? Each and ... MIT is hard. BUT . . . since it feels like I've only been writing wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... ' to Empower Problem Solvers" was among them! I owe that victory to you, and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... speaks Spanish. "How do you say, 'we would like to sit outside?'" The ... January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I'm currently wearing two t

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014