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  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  (as usual), the view outside my window looked picturesque with blue ... "]fix this either,[/annotation] so I was left without the grade cutoffs for my ... she was right. So instead of doing more work, I went outside for the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... for the right reasons. Name, status, "brand" - these are not the right ... Evie Contest: February 27, 2006 Ben is (in)famous in the office for his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to another HackMIT event for the free food before heading off to get ... went to HackMIT, got lunch for free, looted the treasure trove of free ... in the evening. We went for Phantom of the Opera, aka MY FAVORITE

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

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  EMS service. Every Saturday for the past three months or so, I and eleven other students have Ubered over to the other side of Cambridge for ... . We have a final exam for the class split between the next two weekends

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... prepared for the last three of those in just two hellish weeks of cramming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... , literally screaming for the bread.        - The day after Christmas, we saw a ... ’t have any plans for the first half of IAP, so we’ll just keep speed

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing ... other. For example, when I look back to high school, I was surrounded ... Over the past few months, I have become obsessed with crochet

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... ." "The Stata Center was built to look as if it's perpetually falling down ... , and MIT Medical hands them out for free. So, the five of us all went up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  umbrella organization for the nine historically black fraternities and sororities. Similarly, NALFO is the umbrella organization for 23 historically ... Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has ... different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  for someone looking both mad and Russian. Along the Blue Ridge Parkway ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  ; -----------------------------------------   Well, that's mostly it right now, besides actively looking for a full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016 ... sacrifices for science! Here, he's made himself into a pendulum. (Sorry for the ... for the second color? Since seeing is believing, I found a picture of a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  have terrific gender diversity for a science and engineering school. The ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... looked up at my mom, who was still reaching for some higher-up fruit, her ... lectured on the immorality of thievery. She studied me for a little while

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  significantly more reasonable-looking jacket. We take refuge from the wind in a ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... (these are after all new faces in a place I was setting foot into for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... appealing. It's like...watching Breaking Bad for the first time (which ... a look! Since fall classes always begin on the Wednesday after

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  . The first and last place we looked for costumes was my closet.   ... had worn those heels and told themselves that they looked beautiful, the ... wear a bright green corset that I’d worn as the Joker for Halloween. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018