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  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  love for Clay Aiken. I mean, how else would he hear you except during a ... hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman ... attendance. In case it is confusing why I should care about this, I work in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... major options left. And now I’m (almost) officially a double major in ... ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  would end most days unhappy about how I had spent it. Many of the long ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... professor both personally and professionally. How else would you find out that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  stuffed full in my brain. At this point, I had realized just how stressful ... sleep, how I would avoid COVID, when I would get to Boston, if I had ... everything that I’d done wrong in the airport, and how I could have fixed it

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  than the norm. i think i would like to live in boston - i like boston a ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  be smart and I knew how much I liked the people in the admissions ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in admissions. To tell the truth, I didn’t know one could have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... in Boston for 12 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good reason ... I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... ? Finally, have I mentioned lately how much I love xkcd? If you're still

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... didn't rise quite as much as I would have wanted). It was delicious! But

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

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019