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  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early ... from late May to early September. I'd estimate about twelve hours of ... story. Third-year Cambridge engineers rarely shoot for more than ten hours

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  . I have something to show for it this time, though, I found something ... election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me, a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... , introducing them to her favorite trees and caves and perches from which to view

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  recurring issue in for the last couple of years, probably made worse by my inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without ... wearing the same shirt for three days. But today I got back one of three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... be the first to tell you that the day he saw me cooking corned beef

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  -chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear! Panic! To address the worry that follows the question what if I actually ... possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  initiatives (misti) runs global travel experiences for MIT. they’re the primary hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on ... excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... . Reuse is a mailing list for giving things away. People email out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  nice to just do that for a whole weekend without having to worry about ... . and i swear i did a lot of fun things for cpw, but they all feel gone to ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  capitalization of the largest companies. For instance, from 1980 to 2003, the ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the ... ] suggest that the higher salaries for chief executives can largely be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... stick is the greatest invention since written language -while cramming for ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006