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  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  build a habit of exercising everyday has been difficult. It can be so easy ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... home. We have a varied group with one hailing from Alaska and another

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte ... in an airport in a totally unfamiliar city. Ask me questions. If you ... ALBUM IS SO GOOD. DO NOT CHALLENGE MY WORD.) I just ate a sandwich and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... sightseeing strolls. This is actually a much more efficient means of studying than it seems, since it's rare that I can focus tunnel-vision style on a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... fact we're preparing for it on campus already, there is still the ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  . There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my ... -Thanksgiving is effectively Christmas, so everybody cue an abrupt switch of music ... has been executed before, but it is no less impressive to perform it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych!!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See! They can be fun!]

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of ... ziti): That's lots of free food for one day! P.S. If you want a cool entry about Halloween, you need to give me a truly awesome costume idea so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  for a thesis. This is the reason, if you were unlucky enough to see my ... If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My ... the last twelve weeks and is now extremely full, I forgot to take a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  consistent enthusiasm is difficult) into a fancy microphone, and painstakingly ... color is your blood? You should also check out MIT+K12 (even if you are ... you can finally have answered: how do computers compute? how do braces

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... 's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  ’m under 21. Welp. Everyone else I know is staying at the official hotel a 20 ... like a plan. My room is beautiful! But then I realize I haven’t had ... , and there’s no wifi either. I can’t call an Uber. I can’t get back to my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters ... !). For those of you who are not as Potter-oriented, this hack is the scene ... figure out who (or what) is behind it all.     (Note: This is a stuffed

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Vesuvius, not to be confused with Mount Vesuvius in Italy, is a blend of myth ... n' Shake A Skullhouse invention, Steak n' Shake is my all ... 't worry if you couldn't make it to CPW. There's still Orientation, REX, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  now- Adelaide '09 is visiting Madrid! We walked over a huge portion of ... have a pretty decent idea of where things are. The highlight of the night ... and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  dinner: achieved. Pepper Sky is SO GOOD) Wednesday: Wednesday was a LOT ... Buzzfeed, and it was actually really cool. Apparently, “there are a lot of ... game is probably a good idea. The mind-bending schedule was probably due

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the size of a tangerine. It’s nothing really that special—there were ... a sweatshirt. All I’m missing is some pants, maybe some shoes. But ... -purchased lanyard. Now, when I should be writing a persuasive essay for my AP English

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  chance to capture a few videos of performances, one of which you can check ... Dunkins. ~and~ (5) I had a blast at Culture Show 2011 :) C-Show is an ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  internships at Facebook and Google. Maybe there's a chance I can get an ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch ... honors. I find that all I can think of are skating-related. Great. This is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015