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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  , about how much thought they put into deciding what’s best for each person ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... well – see for yourself: Now, as awesome as that was (he used to read

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  /her/hers/he. It wasn’t quite the result I hoped for, but it was really fun ... IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best ... tolerance was shattered. I was fine for the first 3 seconds, so I took a few

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ) mentor for the materials science FPOP!!  We are going to play fun games and ... myself for doing the best I could. I also learned that HASS (Humanities ... fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog ... than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... it for the first time, there was a certain way their eyes popped open

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  touch for many years, but it’s best to wait until after the application ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  the word "football" means a sport played neither with feet nor anything ... 's attention lately. Why? Because this summer, the EuroCup was played (which ... celebrations for your enjoyment. I met up with my friend Martin and we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  fun I have ever had at any baseball games. Even now that I'm back in ... plays, and, of course, the grand slam and Podsednik's walk-off homerun in game two. What was best, though, was seeing how happy my dad was and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Random Hall event) 15:30 - 16:30 Chess is a Game Best Played with Nerf ... upperclassmen. Don’t watch fun from a corner like I sometimes did. Finally, Random ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... and why they decided to create basically the best thing ever. The ... -funding initiative for its students) for another idea they had (“like Uber but for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but ... show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... 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 / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... undergraduate residential experience so varied. Some dorms are "cook for yourself ... dorm, Burton Conner (BC), which was under renovations for the past two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know. Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s ... acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane ... their business in for the entirety of the 6 hour flight.   8:30pm ... enough for dinner. [caption id="attachment_115909" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  found out about this game, I ended up playing it for three whole hours ... fun. If you've known me long enough, there's probably been a time where ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  . What if I like to sing stuff/build stuff/draw stuff just for fun? Does ... reading your responses to the “What do you like to do for fun?” essay ... best served by completing only the standard MIT application. Others feel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post ... dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of ... plays over the Cambridge skyline. It's a small gesture of remembrance, for ... deceptively suave, are nothing more than clumsy stunt doubles for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009