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  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes ... agency for an ad campaign I might take part in. I take a nap, and wake up ... for lunch. I order some steak tips, and Curran picks me up from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... quite a relaxing escape from the frustratingly esoteric 7.012 test this ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... ice (I’m from SoCal. The only kind of ice we have comes in a citrusy drink.). Now I can do a crossover, turn around, skate backwards, and then

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  . At a high level, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing ... life at MIT is a perspective only you can provide, so you should feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  in length from 1 to 2 hours for lecture. Some labs, however, are up to ... staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  make a combination that's so confusingly delicious for how mismatched it ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... try at suggesting a party game ("Allison can go from Harrisburg to, um ... them together, from both teams, into a hat or coffee can. The phrases

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  school began, I very quickly constructed a loft for my room with the help ... ] Mounted curtains to the underside of my loft, creating a cozy nook where I ... , for context, I can count on one hand the total amount of people that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  . Basically: a star runs out of fuel, and can no longer prevent gravity from ... to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  astutely. It was...SNOW. My jaw dropped. For perhaps a full minute, I stood ... --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  answer session. A New Jersey MIT freshman had come from her spring break to ... ". Afterwards was social hour, where I met some really cool alumni. Especially ... should do as soon as we got there.     This year, I got a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I ... neighborhoods of LA, just a stone's throw from USC. I think about these alternate ... , variables were a jumbly mess, for loops and recursion made my head spin. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... was trapped very tightly in a parking spot, and I can’t parallel park or ... was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  : There is a physical prize for the picture I deem the best. The actual ... - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I ... After reading my last blog, Jola from Poland also wanted to let me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  for my life right now, I just lost a group stage match, but I still ... heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still ... much for my soccer knowledge) One comment I’ve been hearing a lot about

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman ... also where alumni comes from, since they are those who have been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sort of microscope for charges, where each foil acts as a lens. Once the ... oscilloscope, it can detect, for example, whether a particle is an electron or a ... the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  ’ perceptions about letting their kids go far from the roost for college. It is a ... , what can I do ya for?” I drive to my favorite sight in all of Cambridge ... you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011