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• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  to the ever bittering elements, but I shall adapt. My first venture ... involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . Through my first semester, I was pretty scrupulous about going to most of my ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  was standing on the platform, it started to snow, first a little, and ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  your first spirit island game"]based on vibes.[/annotation] i happened to ... spirit to play with first, if power progressions are being used. cj ... first thing i did after returning to campus was looking for the expansions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  for prefrosh (admitted first-year students) to interact not only with ... months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled ... , bouncing off ceilings and onto the stage. Needless to say, I was excited ... time constraint. It had to tie in somehow to the class theme for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... the holiday, and before this year I didn't really have enough time to ... ! This was apparently her first time carving a pumpkin, so I think she has

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my ... you go to college without it? 18.03 Book Mmmmmmm, Differential ... Materials My first official Mechanical Engineering class. How can I hate and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  delayed her trip to the hospital to give birth because she was so engrossed ... Short Stories Description: Introduction to the short story. Students write ... short stories. We began with "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, which first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Leah wrote, "first of all, my plan as of now is to graduate highschool ... AP course. In fact, this is the answer to the first question on the ... Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or ... things and merely accepted them. back then i’d told myself that you had to brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  people at the RMV. i also legally shortened my first name to Alex, which ... guess a potential life hack for people who want to change their first ... have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a ... so much...only to return to a house that does not feel like a home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly oscillating) weekly routine. First, a bit about general structure. A “whole ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015