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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  places, like Maine, Northern California, and, of course, Harrisburg PA ... picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a nearby mountainside, a patch of particularly dense foliage has assumed the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  proof of vaccination. Appointments like these usually make my social ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... gathered around numerous booths set up along the walls of the library

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... California. If you can't trust a student blog on the MIT admissions portal ... was not aware of this. So, it's a little strange when you've been biking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa ... party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... stomach). And for those of you who have completed your applications, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... ’s like I’m putting on a persona. Every word sounds fake. Or maybe I should

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  looked fake, but, my, children can be gullible. Some of those screams were ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat. Brass Rat? That's right, MIT has ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... room has started to smell faintly of mildew, and old people. And all of ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ...   you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... adversity, and have a bunch of cool interests. you're social, but mostly like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air ... , if you see people in camouflage carrying fake rifles, that's us) as

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  what I'd do once those nine hours of exams finally concluded. It felt so ... installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side project (Angels and Airwaves?? SERIOUSLY??). It felt like if I ever did get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... because of the combination of directing an ESP program almost single ... . california pizza kitchen. prez debates + rhetorical analysis. ihouse brunch

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  pictures. The walls are black with murals of things like fire and angels ... days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... would look with that gold hoop, or that fake green diamond stud with that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  bay area of northern California, where I lived until I was about 7. My ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012