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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two ... time. You say, and stare at the ceiling for another ten minutes, singing ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... ’t entirely true. For one, I get spooked easily. Whenever I entertained the idea ... escape room! Immediately after entering the next section, a scary-looking

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... said what we were thankful for (i.e. Dima: "I'm thankful for the Burton 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it ... magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... underway, we write. We put pen to paper the old fashioned way for 15 minutes

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... looking through old hacks, take a look at the IHTFP Hack Gallery, where they

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... better suited for free weight workouts. Because of the small surface area

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... 50 revisions" means. I know I spent some time using the agenda for its ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  supports. But the table was so small that those supports would look comical ... looked great, all four legs touched the ground. The only thing I hadn ... looked right after I finished it: How it looks 99% of the time: (But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have ... look lost, just inform them that Harry and Ron have to take the Ring to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours ... . This was one sweet-looking branch; the buildings were newer; the football ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... !" out loud, and one of the postdocs gives me a strange look. 10:15 AM. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  definitely in the clear for the programs I was looking at, 80th for verbal and ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  scientists and share their stories with the public - FOR A LIVING! Sounds ... procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... rehearse for the musical, because no one would be able to hear me) and phoned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012