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  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  guys come out for the parades: That's a pirate ship in downtown ... Naval aerial stunt team that comes to Seattle every year and tears the ... I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  toy in the store and bring it to us immediately. She warned us that the ... secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the ... reveal the deepest secrets of the X-Knot to us. So, the idea is that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  never buy. The new room is pretty much the same, but now we have a couch ... brought back the infamous b1ner cribs, and Layla and I (although in a triple at the time) got a feature! So, it's only fitting that for our third

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  well. They both seem to have a genuine hunger for math and science that ... and soon after passed a rigorous admission exam to the John D. O ... .5 million grant from the Greater Texas Foundation, Project STEEM is geared to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... is that you should not attempt to learn everything there is to biology ... clockwork, having time to study, hang out, and do a ton of activities at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  that :) I guess a point I want to stress is that there is a lot of ... great for another person. The most important thing is that you go to a ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  same song. Haha okay before you bash me on this...there's a story to ... 'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you ... !) - directing the program for so long had made me start to use the program as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... method is to look where I need to be the next day, map out a rough route ... the coast. While I still suspect that this was in part a plot to keep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  , and celebrate my 21st birthday in a country where the drinking age is 20 ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  left together, and the replacement goal will honor that. There are a lot ... of the struggles I’ve had related to sexual assault and how the same ... . Part of what makes perfectionism a perpetual reality for me is that there

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior ... , Microeconomics, and Thermo-Fluids Engineering). Overall, a great start to the ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’re like me, and you’ve always hated summer and the fact that we have to ... bed around 2 PM and not get out, that there was less to distract me from ... that comes with aging. It exposed me to a whole new perspective on the

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  ’t want to lose the feel of this day — and that is a good feeling to have ... , subtly, as I grew older, and also how much of it is the same. But that ... , is far better. And yet, there’s a…pull… to my old stuff, an innocence

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that ... - believing that injustice is what this country, and indeed society, is built on, and accepting that this is what it will continue to be built on, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most ... to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... are to have this window at all. This is the only exception that MIT

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... all at the very same time. And you’d wake up every day knowing that MIT ... the country. Since a number of years have passed, you'll have to visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  essays, I had the recs - I am going to college. A month and a half later ... wanted to convey it from, not the tone and the angle that my teachers had ... . And for those really committed to coming here, I hope MIT is a wonderful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  ... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home that’s ... deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... humans. I learned a lot, and I even got a chance to fly out to the ... the UK, I found myself traveling to a different country every other

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024