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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  time, I can't even stress that enough), you can develop interests in ... 8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later! ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... annual event at MIT, outstripping event Commencement. You can watch the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  I can enroll in IAP classes and participate in research, I cannot ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your judgmental stares poking my back) but I’ve actually been writing a lot. In fact

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical ... As we’ve already seen, tests can really throw a curveball into one’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be ... I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get ... Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I ... -less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs appreciate good hacks too. I got this far-view shot that includes these two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... in six weeks. On Wednesday I had an appointment with my therapist. The ... cram. "Work isn't like that. I don't know when I can take a break, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  'm modifying... Anyway, I can't really say much more, because where's the fun in ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  .) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... typically the biggest travel days in the U.S. Why? Because that day (today

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... whether you can paint your room is one of those little quirks to look at. I ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... activities. In other words, Orientation is in full swing! This also means that

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

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... of the year, so please have fun. And lots. Thanks :^) That's all I can ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of inflatable rafts with a hot dog grill in the center raft?' and [name I don ... in kindergarten that I could do anything if I tried, so I ignored

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009