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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  .) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  homework I could have finished in that hour, but I quickly realize how much ... Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that prospect. “Uuuuuuuuggghhhh!” I grunt out in frustration – I think of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss

  

  Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit ... stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  last year (and I'm pretty sure she specialized in geobiology... I hope I got that right), AND I'm trying to do more new things in college ... September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the barstools never got made. In fact, the lumber is still stacked in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  . Anyway, I wondered if I could somehow jog fast enough that the sunset would be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  think i made my room too cozy this year because i just stay in it all day ... infinitely sexy. so many people fit in my bed. I love boners!!!!!!!! but ... pile up. My tools have become so useful in B1; I've loaned out the hammer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this ... I was a chemical engineer, she asked if I was the only woman in my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  extension that would allow users to copy-paste text directly from in ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I ... -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

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

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... . Since I could probably talk for far too long about how great Seattle is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  How long has it been since I last blogged? So long that it took me 9 tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming traffic while walking and texting, but I think this technology would ... available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.   ... inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found ... , perhaps I’ll pass in most (all?) categories, but if not, hey, it’s still A ... were harmed in the end. I acquired ~99% of college wisdom from fellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  -rollers in their lounge. The Massachusetts Institute of Trolling: I might minor in this department, but I'm not sure which of the classes I should ... -editing school. As someone who is not that interested in Technology at all, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... dawns on me that I left my coffee in my dorm room. Ten minutes to my 9 ... bread in the toaster and only realise I cremated my toast when I smell it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but ... , I don’t know how to respond to recent overwhelming support.  Growing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021