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  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a question), and answered that the Kumail would be a scale of magnitude for the ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic ... judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... Invocation for Beginnings" (which is a fantastic video but a bit profanity

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours ... nurse's comment made it a 10. Sunday Nov 4: I wore pajamas for literally ... . ^ 1, 3, 8 for the J-Lab miracle. Monday Nov 5: I got a letter from my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... a bike (and a lock that could pass for a tank), get out often, it's 5

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ’s now mostly a day for getting rid of disease and bad luck. There’s a ... supplies from the prior year — or I could probably go ask a neighbor for some ... meat counter for a pound of it. I walk away with five pounds of it. He

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... attended a one-hour body sculpt class for the public. The next morning, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  've looked for more media based internships, since that's a field I have some ... for that! I bought my dress and am planning to go on a huge shopping ... wrong way to spend your break. A break is a break for a reason. And if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first ... water for the whole trip. Uh-oh.   11:50 AM, Natick: Mile 10 As a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... friends.   *METALLURGY!! I am signed up for a metallurgy advising ... -auditioned for an acapella group (a new experience for me!) -participated in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to MIT. You’d just be hanging out for a few more months to get a better handle on what you’re really coming here for. This might sound just a bit ... , taking a breather after high school isn’t necessarily for everyone. If you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... to Random after class, I took a picture for the Internet. What else is ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  studying for my two midterms. Physics went fine; Biology went a whole lot ... paved way for larger, more complex ones…and I recently got a sense of ... had learned thus far to developing drugs for a certain heart disease. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  My first personal entry, how exciting! For some background info about me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering and Premed (we have a really cool major that lets you combine Mech E

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church. The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the ... also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out ... .  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  fairs, even if you aren't looking for a job yet. They may not have a ton ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  may laugh, but you'll laugh for a different reason if you're a student ... There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is ... . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  things students can do and has had a UROP in the MIT Center for Space ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor planet (a.k.a. an asteroid, but minor planet sounds substantially more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005