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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... who built giant marble and stained-glass memorials that have long since fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and ... exercise. I've written about grad school and/as the Boston marathon, the challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of ... jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  university classes, making university friends, and writing university finals. I ... end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  succeed in high school, and depart for universities around the country and ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  liquid nitrogen and smoke on different cooking shows)"]state ... elements to represent Aang and his Avatar state. I positioned the mille ... ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... students, affectionately known as the Z']Zesiger Center[/annotation] and [annotation note='another institute gym, located on campus proper']Wang Fitness

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things, and many more, simultaneously. As such, the very idea that one can

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had ... first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... of the 2015 roller coaster (which I rode, and which some of my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015