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  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire ... . We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half ... coming in with the knowledge that they'd stay in ec for a year before ... not have. i can now say that i've stayed in ec for all four years of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid ... take pictures in the lobbies. The grad students and “real adults” walk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... -long intellectual adventure: MIT Mystery Hunt. An annual puzzle competition for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  , UROPs don't fall from the sky and land in your lap. You have to look into ... I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  % off coupon in the Collegiate Coupon Book, which you can pick up for free ... Paula Abdul is briefly and somewhat arbitrarily featured in the video for ... It looks like I've already been outdone with this entry; I must say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ! In an all-too-optimistic state, I tried studying for 20.110 over the ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as ... Policy for Washington Interns, which is a small class in coordination with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?   ... ’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to ... “j”s so that they could finally understand. 1 She spoke in centimeters

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... 's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... time constraint. It had to tie in somehow to the class theme for the ... them. This is where Ollie comes in. Ollie was produced for five hundred

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ’s content in this room. I usually set an alarm even on weekends. But yesterday ... cool my friends look in billowing skirts has made me like them more ... ="not that there's anything wrong with that; i absolutely live for vincent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... of “American” when I’ve also grown up in a [annotation note="Look up a ... needles or a soccer ball in years. But hey, I was about to become an MIT

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  five wacky and wild weekends new hampshire? i hardly know her!

  

  Flags In April, ‘27s and ’28 were treated to [annotation note="$25 for a ... "]hyper-discounted tickets[/annotation] to Six Flags New England! I am an absolute fiend for ... [annotation note='The undergrad team in charge of the Brass Rat for their class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... and forests, the mountains began to part for towns ending in ville and ... , which will bloom in June, for my mom’s birthday, which will happen in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... looked for titles that were relevant to my interests and were interesting ... Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  it in the air. I hated myself for a long time for thinking I could go ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  climbed up, the drummer’s mouth open in an oh at the punch that resulted ... honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  're an aero/astro major at MIT you, too, will take a (24-unit) class called ... through this week. If that's not enough to make you just DIE to be an aero ... partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010