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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... Force. I have too many great things going on now for me to worry about ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... puzzle...but it was definitely worth it. For "That'll Tichu to Mess With ... MIT is famous for? It also needs to be named after a tectonic plate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  were intended for. We also made sure not to pedal directly behind it ... summer and commuted to Rhode Island for work), cranked up the air ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  justice to a happy piece so I really appreciate this album for discovering ... the 1 for a very long time but I have come to really like it. It also ... always feels like a conversation to me except neither person is being heard

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... to go on a long walk, and so I dedicated a day to preparing for it, a ... first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to ... ride my bike for nearly an hour every day to speed up the part of my ... . It’s nice that the commuter rail exists for getting to suburbs outside

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  to figure it out. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for a big ... parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... Py and pandas for my calculations, and matplotlib and seaborn to make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some ... same criteria to evaluate applications for both EA and RA. Take the time you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  started to form their own mechanisms for deciding room assignments within ... students to stay in their assigned hall for their entire time at MIT. It also ... to Taji Manning '25 for creating these! Architectural Principles There

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who ... MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get personalized autographs for my girlfriend, who loves the show (as do I) for it ... will be until after I give them to her. Hooray for expensive accidents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write ... -school cassette player to listen to it? :p" Relatedly, Arvind asks, "Matt, for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... to another nearby hotel, but cover the cost to make up for the ... ) call, and let me know that they are shutting down for the weekend due to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  neglected for a minute too long. Then I’ll head to the west side of campus for ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012