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  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  -R: Jeanne, Jeanne's prefrosh) Which in turn really makes me wish I'd visited ... against an artificially-lit screen. Could I have seen the smoke that filled ... astray? Could I have chatted with the marathon runners, pageant winners

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  While You Wait… ...why not play Brawl?

  

  Brawl, possibly the most anticipated game of 2008, came out today. Can I ... . Although I've yet to see the hack for myself, as I've been working in my room ... ... Poke Balls, Item Boxes, and Heart Containers - oh my! I can has banana

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it ... e-mail from Dr. Jean-Francois Hamel, my 10.28 professor, who I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  !! (I totally felt like Pat Sajak as I wrote that ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate ... all-male mentors. Then, Ariel and I actually went back to our own high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... . It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  walks  Dogsitting our mom’s friend’s hyper energetic dog. Like, he would ... would go absolutely berserk outside on runs, if that says anything. He was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ball would be replaced with polymer. Once the microspheres are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin ... Green The Muses - a female a cappella group - offered these options: 1. I Touch Myself - Divinyls 2. I Wanna Have Your Babies - Natasha Bedingfield

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front. And what I’ve got is this pretty amazing flowchart my cross-country co

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... such. I am not Jewish. I’m from the Midwest- I had a Jewish neighbor ... that I’d be living with Kosher keeping people, much less on a floor with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  inactivity ever since I began this blog. What's been keeping me so busy ... . I can't help but be excited. International selection. Choosing ... -qualified applicants is a daunting task. I'm excited about the choices we've made, while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005