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  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  about college. Denver is soft. Denver, on a Tuesday, heals me. Denver ... in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever ... Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  hackathon. However, what may come as a surprise is that MIT is very, very good ... New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference, which MIT is a part ... .  How has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far?  Field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big ... left are eyes and a Solo cup button. The body of the snowman, however, is ... UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine ... holly berry, which in hindsight is not a berry one consumes, but the ... prefer walking. There is a strangely high density of ice cream shops in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... embarrassing, and one awesome. I'll let you decide which is which. A Trip to ... how I envisioned my first full day back...but it made for a good bonding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... felt. To me a foreign language was and is more than just the translation ... truth as possible. Behind every sound and stroke of language is a story

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  .P.S: these notes are from nearly a month ago, which is approximately how long ago i ... pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  ) Snow is nice too, I guess. A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m ... Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  after Professor Merritt Roe Smith very nearly demonstrated a bone saw on ... Honors Chemistry. It was a video about VSEPR and gas laws produced by the inimitable Standard Deviants. Well, there were a lot of interesting things in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Santiago Calatrava, whose work I think is really cool. I just got a phone ... after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004, but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... Cambridge? Me: Uhh, October 1st, so around 4-5 weeks! Friend: Woah, that's a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  basically one of the gods of stem cell research. The man is a pioneer in his ... exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is done on time!). As you may know, we have our own ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  is a simple image of the aftermath of 2.007 on my room. (2.007 is a ... robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that ... the robot. (Sleeping, not so much.) As a result, my floor was covered

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  and Anna have said, undergrad admissions is but a phase and it’s so ... ’m pretty much committing a presentation sin, but if that’s the only way I can ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... of annotations, it is a monster to read... let alone understand. But enough complaining. I am in a superb lit class that is tackling this book

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the ... small half, though it is only a half to the extent that one third is a ... enough to fit a bed. Living in a small half is a good lesson in keeping

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012