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  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to ... splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did ... REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in ... for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  allowed at the event (or I would have taken pictures for you and the blog ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest ... (for which I still owe you the summary, I know) we had a group discussion ... hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months – which is an eternity in cyberspace (sorry ‚òπ), I: * Finished 1st year ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  friends from the MSA Nour and Iman! Finally, I would like to thank Paul ... As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  electrifying enough to make me forget about how stressed out I was just hours ... . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don’t know falsettos or crescendos or if the two are even related, but I know

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... ="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... Boston, and three Boston adventures. This time, I'm moving away from the ... campus). CAMBRIDGE ON CAMPUS BAHFest This April, I attended my third

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... explain how to solve: Practice Exam 1, Problem 8. c) I welcome an e

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  sleepless nights cursing stress tensors and wondering how you'll ever make it ... makes it stylish; a perfect combination of aesthetics and performance, I ... way I take pictures. A close-up: A glamour shot: Jesse explains

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  Queen Victoria III's "HELLO?" outside my tent. Shocked at how late I ... turned off. I was a little spooked, but over-protective mating bears and ... Victoria III, Jennifer and I wandered around the meadows while Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever ... trampolines, and the wind was trying to eat us. It felt so very college :D I won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the ... so much time speaking with so many students. Nor would it have been ... , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  the best cookies I've ever had. Rocking the Oculus Rift. Hacking, as ... mounted with an internal webcam that would detect, identify, and tag with an ... extension that would allow users to copy-paste text directly from in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  asked I didn't know how to answer completely (e.g. "how do Josephson ... last year, when I tagged along at MARC despite my nonexistent research output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025