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  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the ... different way of doing it wrong. Sorry Chicago. You can confide in other ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... newest little brother in my fraternity. I departed from home at 4 pm in an unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  of great wars in the future. Historical cases include World War I ... : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my ... past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I ... naps in the grass. Go on spontaneous road trips. Stroll through city

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... . =================================== In high school, I spent a lot of time playing music. I was playing my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Spokes America, I can tell he'll get a lot more out of that than an ... I was accepted and I lost in both of them. Yup, I was just a dude who ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  of the prettiest I've ever seen. we spent a while being idiots in the ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they ... 's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact ... all of the places I'd be traveling in the next five days, some of them

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  half of last week, I basically lived in Libraries and Study Rooms for the majority of my evenings. I had a big paper due in 17.40* last Tuesday, so I ... library, and that's why I chose to do the majority of my work in them

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was ... made me think of the song in the first place when I was brainstorming

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... the end of the semester, I found myself doing more in a way that didn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... , where I’ve had some of my greatest successes in academic competition and ... me in the company of great friends. I had to choose some of my very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... , the more the very notion of “real work” became confused. In clubs I ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  city, and a lot of it is made out of concrete. This does not mean you can ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like ... this club? Why am I doing… any of this??? tick I can’t get peace here. I ... of what we were taught. While I see the value in challenging students

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• 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:…

  

  was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for

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

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel ... , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I ... perspiration." I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be in the presence of this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005