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• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... , no one heavily edits my blog posts, no one quality controls most of the ... yet, Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later, took me two weeks of work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have ... gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11, which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

  graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... , providing commentary when it is needed. poems (7) Many of these poems I keep

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars, friends, classes, activities... but most of us are probably doing too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... boss. (Plus, what other admissions dean would rock out at Battle of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  cast sharp shadows across the road, cutting gashes of total darkness ... are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking ... ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020