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• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla ... Caine is a 9 year old boy from East LA. His dad, George, runs a used ... collecting donations for a college scholarship fund, should you, like me, be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  of a semester, so that I can slowly fall apart and still turn all of my ... . This semester, I didn't call them for a period of about three weeks. To ... truly enjoyed to stay in. As I tried to come up with a few examples for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  and took a pastry from possibly the fanciest snack platter I've ever ... from the New York Times, so I'm basically a crucial pillar of American ... was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell Matt's got his characteristic tie for selection period! I figured I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  thought I was buying a thing for a diffuser? But it was incense? I gave it ... maybe from the McD's on Mass Ave, I can't remember. Rocket Fizz is a store ... or put a lot work into it. For example, I have a lot of stickers from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... encounter situations where crisp, compelling writing can express your feelings ... change the way you think about writing. I keep Orwell's rules for writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of ... I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... long-delayed flight from Boston. After a nap at my hotel I went down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  replacement. I kept the old battery as a souvenir of how much I’ve used it for ... to make an art installation for a museum someday. I want to adopt a cat ... blessings cannot cradle and my time cannot buy. I am a child throwing a fit at

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  . Matt lived there happily for 4 years, and I've heard it's a cool place ... downpour to ask the poor, exhausted deskworker for a tour. I asked a ... where the wireless card detected a signal. From there it was only a matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  means a golden ticket for the next step. But what I can say is that MIT ... can. In the moments where I am not hit by anxiety, I am trying my best ... was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  :03 PM: Oh. My. God. I have a writer’s meeting for my [annotation note ... like the wind.   5:25 PM: I look up from my computer for the first ... group trip to 7/11 to buy some Hi-Chews. For the first time all day I have

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... , and Composer of the Month, all of which stem from a diverse range of ... , received! Here are some items from the package: Featuring chopsticks, a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... ’t escape this box of gloom by doing a lot of work. I probably can’t, because

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  we could use for the walls, but I decided we needed a floor, too ... -inch plywood instead—that stuff bends! You can’t use that for a floor!) After we ... rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can ... city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  , and buy a normal, two-story house. I will be humble. Everybody says they ... not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... on the side. I will buy a great dane, and call him "Buffalo." I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  probably tell you where it originated from. I unfortunately missed out on a ... contents. There was a space on the envelope for me to write an address. I ... struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he ... ended up looking like a Na'vi's when I was done.) When I came back from ... From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates ... , Snively 0. I started looking for a place to stash my skates but there wasn ... fence for another two hours and fifteen minutes, a really long time. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008