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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking ... windows of 5th West: Oh, the holiday spirit. This one may require a bit of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up ... doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an ... support penalty kicks as a way of deciding a winner. (Side note: Roberto

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it, focusing on both the overall winners and the performances of MIT runners. Now ... front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve ... 've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the ... walk around carrying a trumpet out of its case in one hand all day. Of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... bucket of ice. Since my lab's ice machine has been broken since, like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  with another area of your choice, it's called 2A), I live in Next House (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876 ... Officer Amrys Williams '02, and a team of MIT alums and other folks embarked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  , [annotation note="hello cami here. this is? a different kind of blog. ranty blog? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021