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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... -up truck. I spent the next week missing my family like crazy, and I spent it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  different. One, I do not have someone else to walk with. Alan Z. '23 (another ... the urban heat island. The snowfall has finally given up, which I ... the snow has such a high albedo that it might not be as dark as I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  McDonald's where a group of high schoolers laughed at me and my intro ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... hideous polo shirts. I peered across the pier with my peers, homonymically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  Japanese McDonald's. I just discovered that the Quarter Pounder is actually a ... とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was ... concluded I was shooting too high, and falling quite short. At the conclusion ... stagnant water on the floor and mold growing everywhere. I spent hours on end

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  reason I came to McDonald's in the first place. I mean, I'm glad I found ... December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... . (Okay, not really, but I feel like a childhood with his name had to have ... . * "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. * McDonald's plans to open 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  your point (if applicable). For example, I worked on my high school ... hopelessly conceited student. However, I still ended up getting into the college in the end (even when I thought all hope was lost). In some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to ... to follow -- after a man's death, and I heard them praise him for his ... recent years. I heard us recognize the man's talents and his weaknesses

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  every single restaurant in the city. Next up was Ippudo, a high-end ramen ... in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  ? Someone's doing better than I am? Toto, I don't think we're in high school ... revert to the sane man's 48. I had the above epiphany after spending three ... I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  miss being in high school.] [annotation note="As I hope you understand ... of the most outrageous name I could on the fly, and ended up proposing ... the twenty year old band trailer. I miss wearing that Van Gogh hat I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing useless information from interesting useless information, so I usually opt ... past, I observed that my calendar looked like it was about to suffer an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... . Breakfast came to an unwelcome end, much like my Midwestern childhood, and I ... after the two hour mark was overwhelming, so I ended up leaving after 2

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  the other end said, “We thought you were great, but I don’t feel ... myself how to code. I guess looking back at it, the time between the end of ... feel. I’m not really good at endings, but I think I do remember hearing

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  ;   This is the pocket where I end up shoving everything small I have ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... reason I ended up switching over completely is that, sometimes the places I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student ... minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when I saw it.     Can you see it?     zoom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  end of the week, and apparently someone up above (by which I mean the 4 ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in ... Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you ... has abruptly shifted into high gear. Don't let that freak you out though ... , before LOLcats and chocolate rain. Ladies and Gentleman, I have found such

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008