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  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner ... of family and close friends) to take a look at my essays, taking care ... that I had genuinely gotten the essence of myself across. At 10:55, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  combat this lack-of-answers in Dali's content (at least, at first glances ... a vast extent of art and culture to be "known" at the museum, even ... Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... aside, I’ve obtained an above average number of body pillows this past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a feeling I know many of my peers at MIT have shared at some point. I think ... and friends that come with being at MIT, and the future of the college

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... inability to see what they had learned from it. At the end of the dialogue ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  care of them and I cannot bear to see a petal fall. But at the same time ... -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... , wishing I could constantly be in the in-between of here and not quite there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  nevertheless. It's part of why I enjoy going to work at the VA Medical Center ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when she collaborated with Sally Susnowitz, Assistant Dean and Director at ... societies at MIT to serve the community at large. "Kristi, Sally and I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... , and usually the entropy of activation required for that process is just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are ... of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin ... one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there ... of BP as a company, one looked at BP’s technical background, and ... hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... at least one more year (unless they're old, in which case, why are you ... , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  Applicants who have been watching the online tracking system at My ... lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... discussion to a close, and at the end of the day, we accomplished nothing. No ... weeks here at MIT. So I'll dive right into two arguments I've stumbled

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  . Sounds awesome! One of my biggest regrets at MIT was qualifying for the ... creative outlet for you to continue pursuing at MIT. I'm pretty proud of ... Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  career at the uncareerlike hour of 9 AM, and (3) sit through six hours of ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... matter? I don't know, but I didn't bother to try and find out, and at MIT ... . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  many years at NASA.” Here’s a picture of the complete set: As a ... If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ...  recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011