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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the ... to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  , staring at the white of the screen contrasted by the surrounding darkness of ... . Remember that at the end of the day, after shipping out your tiny bottles of ... -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... , and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  hours of sleep and crawled out of bed this morning at 6 AM. One group ... same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  station (along with half of London, it seemed) I heard at least five or six ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  spent at least an hour going through a massive checklist of everything in ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... uneventful." My 4 pm-11 pm shift this past Sunday agrees with about 2/3 of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... year, his defense of latkes resorted to significant mudslinging. At one ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Hacking and open-source both have deep roots at MIT. (I always get kind of annoyed when people outside of MIT laugh at us for calling pranks "hacks ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  -perfect meatballs to show for my work. I ended up with half of one at the end of the ... DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Joshua Bell at Boston's Symphony Hall It's kind of hard to know what to ... . Done. Ah, the joys of being an Arts Scholar at MIT. I'm going to miss ... him?) decided to show off two of his talents at the same time by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  total budget at the top of this list. Make it your goal not to exceed it ... on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  seemed a weird and out of character, or at least been uninteresting. Out of ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  a speaker pointed at the performers instead of the audience, so that ... the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  halfway mark of my time at MIT. I felt like there were too many stories left ... bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent over blue examination booklets, and stops at me scribbling away at my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  transition at once. All of this abstract, though. Aimless musings on an aimless ... post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014