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  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  over a month in advance, as they do every year. So some very quick workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... -go-round is bigger and more solid than last year's.   There is a see-saw that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... just showed up with an add form, and got in easily. The thing is that a ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  others in a way that I didn't realize I could: I'm a pretty introverted ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a quote into an outline of a shape. That is probably the worst explanation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... -week performance period than I probably normally do in a two-month period. Middle ... workout that day and gosh darnit all I want is some peanut butter and some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... they complain, I like to give them a blank look, as though the concept is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do ... magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  is similar to the Associate Advising program, in the sense that it's a ... seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved with: 1) Associate Advising 2) MedLinks (1) is the reason that I'm on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  stuff is as neat as I do, and want more,you are in luck! As part of the ... : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... Years in the Stacks" blog, which is highlighting one book a day from their

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a ... America and other lives that are not my own; they also have a lot to do with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  Subject: Re: bike ride everything I do is based on blog entry potential ... major, cooking, and essentially everything in life is that if you throw ... . This picture is not related to Matt's crashing into a parked car. Also, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  MIT student population. But I just feel that a movie is a movie, and the ... anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  is or is not "fair." Have I made the point that one learns a lot more than "how to build a robot" by doing FIRST? Have I mentioned that my ... ", she said, in a voice that many have commented is creepily similar to my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... : I'm taking 14.41 this term Professor: Oh, is that PF? Student: No, I ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... challenge here is deciding what to do with it. I learned during my first year at MIT that some variables are set: in order to be happy I must sleep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  . This is a subtle mention, but enough that I included it. It's Tóng Huà in ... , houseplants, is the one album of a song in this list that I will listen to ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• 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 adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019