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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  to figure it out. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for a big ... , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... day, he found a toilet on the street a block away from his house. So we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  I have a "me-them" mentality... If MIT was a nice match for me, wouldn ... Academy. I have a few questions for you: -Will MIT consider applicants who ... etc where you can meet people. People here don't bite, and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing useless information from interesting useless information, so I usually opt

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  just flew home from visiting for Christmas), I compiled a list of eight ... people learn, and I am currently on the hunt for a way that I can make ... life, I never really made a resolution for New Years. I always kind of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  is on my lap (where a laptop should be, I guess) and my headphones are ... , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  friend had been watching from a distance; I wasn't the only one who was ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  allison: i can ... possibly borrow buckets from scioly? ojas: why have i ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any ... !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  . It can be a bit frustrating since I’m at this unfortunate stage where ... for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the ... schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  as grateful as I am for being where I’m at today, realizing how fast a ... If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went ... with friends for food off campus, and another, I’ll be trying to rush a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to ... more. I was responsible for arts and crafts, so I sat at a picnic table ... looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can figure out a system, I can fit more into my balance, too. This summer I ... discussing poetry. I made a sword with a dragon head for a hilt. I read about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American ... students can participate on any day from November 6 – 17. If you have ... ! New this year: there are free apps (iPhone, Android) that students can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  . Good enough view? Not for me either. So I got a closer one. Its a ... program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... ). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... much. I took a few my Freshman year from one of the less notable (but ... for getting to and from class a little more expeditiously--as the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I ... bit of a follower. I accept that these rules exist for some reason and ... lonely. For nearly all of my life I had been a content little loner, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  found myself confronted with a different winter from the one that I know ... life, I can’t help but long for the days back home—even the challenging ... differences, we can make MIT feel like home for everyone, no matter where they

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do ... : they will not.) iv. depression I submit a drop form for the class to my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW ... things up. I see Matthew C. '23, lying on the couch, having woken up from a ... more to show for a weekend I poured my heart and soul into. But all I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  doing, but for a letter on paper that i believed would determine ... i can't help but feel impaled by every word, both from the pain of ... as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019