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  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  do, and I think it's just so incredible how well they manage their time ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in ... whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of ... sort of behavior was typical. Now, I'm a little sheltered in this regard

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... stopped -- i have learned SO MUCH about real-world programming in the past ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement, but I'm sure it will be a great time. This year's MIT Commencement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  legs among both living and mechanical creatures, which I am printing in ... about, I would most likely fall to earth as well." --"So who knows if it ... Roger Ebert is my favorite film critic; I think he's got an honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... . Turns out it was my toaster! I just had no idea it was there in the first ... way. I think Selena was in a sorority recruitment event.) So, like, don

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... means and how to change it if necessary. Wait, am I talking about brains

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... students and faculty in various departments, and I've decided that my best ... want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  in its District regional competition. "I always wanted to go to MIT. MIT was my dream since I was a freshman. I would make up passwords to my ... 's like an Oscar. That would be amazing if I were chosen for it, but it's OK

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... . I chose to concentrate in Science Writing. In Spring 2006, I took an ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... the scanner in CopyTech and my belated post could finally be uploaded. I ... in a puffy jacket minding her own business. Anyway, I was in high

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... crying. kellen: *sigh* I don’t know how helpful any of this was, but we ... So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . The last time I played this was in fifth grade, I remember, because it ... want to skillet so I can get some searing action on. In a beautiful bit ... DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  : And then it was all over before the time I would normally wake up in a ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008