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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not only because my TA is Canadian and says "molar mahss") so I'm less ... the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts were the important thing, you could save your tuition money and get your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , you'll unplug the phone and put it under your bed because who needs a limited landline when you have a cell?) 2. A twin bed with frame and ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... and things to discover, so kindly refrain from clogging up our path ... convenient map shorthand. We actually call buildings by their numbers here, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b) shopping. And c) shopping. So this morning, I was psyched when Adam suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I ... /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that, given that there are 12 MITbloggers and assuming no leap years? Sorry for ... busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  'm being dragged around and coerced into moderately horrible icebreaker ... :30 Wednesday night, and we were all required to meet at our dorm at 7 ... to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... : This exhibit is not for the weak-hearted. The constant crashes and flashes of thunder and lightning had me jumping out of my seat. The museum

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin Hsin, a restaurant on Mass. Ave which has some cheap eats and really good

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  schedule around; it's 1-3 every Tuesday/Thursday and spring-only. I'm glad I committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super ... -taught dancers, and people with no dance experience whatsoever. some people dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  illustrator will take our script and transform it into the comics you know and ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... Bombers. it was a tumultuous and fulfilling experience in spite of numerous roadblocks, last-minute location changes, and freshmen who had never even heard

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  should be elated -- but it's also complicated, and really difficult, when ... -rival doesn't, and then they start talking shit about you; or, especially, when ... good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you ... they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops ... . Visit every dorm. Talk to fellow incoming freshmen and talk to ... come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second ... of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012