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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at ... Free or Die Hard." "Wait, actually, I think that is the name of the new ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  of friends. The sun starts to set at around 6, which was when I ... fact, Eric and I moved from campus to here together. The four of us at ... I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  dreamer must order at least one bowl of ramen[/annotation] and attempt to ... the belly. you look at the towering monstrosity of a bowl in front of ... food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  poem each week.  At the end of July, inspired by my friend Sophia W ... two months of summer soaking up new experiences.  [caption id ... of work. Poems are a great way to try out new ideas, or condense

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving ... Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves mainly around the Oasis Model of Lecture Seating, along with practical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it. Where I live, we got 2 feet of snow overnight. The blizzard crippled ... ’s okay - lot’s of physical activity planned forIAP; stay tuned. ANYWAYS

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  cancelled due to crew timeouts), I composed a list of new affirmations ... could help me (and my roommate) achieve my (our) dream of running MIT ... ). But since the beginning of this semester, MIT Affirm has gone dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  came over and looked at me inquisitively. i offered a weak smile. "i was ... little more talkative they'll wish me the best of luck at mit. it's a ... i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken ... . And out of all three teams at Microsoft I applied to, I only got ... understand. Most of all, I didn't enjoy the constant whisper at the back of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  "Columbia," "University of Maryland," or "Case Western Reserve." It's actually ... shook with rage. I narrowed my eyes, glaring at the orange ball ahead of ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT ... middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a ... &A blog soon. We'll also be adding a photo blog at some point this fall

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... fiction (and reality?) Evolution of popular beard styles Universals of human ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  me before. But at the same time, I realized that in the midst of my ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019