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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  the next 15 minutes on a mission: my hair drenched, pants rolled up and ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Canyon that you went down on your back, which started out slow for the ... the Tornado, where your group was on a raft that went through a tube ... point of practically going upside down. After the water park, we went on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... meters in any direction. Open to the public, privately owned. Flanked on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was crossed! Unbelievable Scenery at Scottsbluff, NE PC: Ashisha Persad On the ... team discussions and a long night of last minute inspections of the car

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  you doing at 8pm on Saturday Dec 8? Sam: Probably laundry. Me: Would you ... baffling. My face looked like this when, on Sunday, I walked into the ... (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  the number of beats per minute. The notes played out work on the circle ... contact with someone on the phone…we have a phone number. While we tend to ... number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to ... all of the stupid recipients' names on the whiteboard. It takes like 15

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I even composed my first blog post on its screen. [caption id ... Great British Bake Off. There it is while I was working on my costume

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  ranger station, and filled out backcountry permits. The park ranger on duty ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  the bus and have to wait another twenty minutes on the sidewalk. Yeah, I ... guarantees on-campus housing to undergrads for eight semesters, I was under no ... in on-campus dormitories, even though they can technically join MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this entry for: Asking any last minute CPW questions you have (you can also do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we ... working, by putting in a "neckline" all around the piece with a tool, adding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... with grace, and apple picking on tuesday organized by dormcon, which

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  This was originally posted on my personal Medium blog @selamjie,  but ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly ... speak the best English could rely on. Others had restaurants, liquor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod ... "]meal.[/annotation] The chances of me leaving this world because I choked on bread are ... and have dinner afterward. Praying generally takes 30 minutes, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  and I, pose for a "I have paint on my nose" picture After 10 minutes ... class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... 10 minutes early today (I'm a tool, I'm sorry, I was excited!) and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS ... call from an MIT senior who is going to be on Jeopardy! tonight. Pretty cool. Tonight, Jiaqi (Jean) Cui '09 will appear on Jeopardy. Here's more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009