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places around and at mit godless and holy
I've been to. But also when it's 70 people cramped down in the ... really hits when you go at 12 in the morning. we go to the one near harvard ... 's difficult to compile footage all together and i'm really trying my best. but -
Blog / Admissions
Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.
in and said, in the most innocent voice, "Hi, yeah...we want to go to ... it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... 're writing your essays, you don't want to be generic. You have to keep in mind -
Blog / Admissions
California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road
a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange ... , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD -
Blog / People & Identities
BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence
shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... [/caption] But how did this shark plush get so popular? Blahaj’s rise to ... introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008 -
Blog / Challenges
i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress
rest, I was completely back to normal. The issue is that I'm behind in ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it -
Blog / Blog Projects
Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for
finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you -
Blog / Summer
five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York
“Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... in, but in August, asymmetric tank tops with thin straps started to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too
A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type. It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words. Which means that you get weird -
Blog / MIT Life
Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.
adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me -
Blog / Internships & Externships
soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers
've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... . CJ: Mhm. Anna: It just feels like… I'm locked in to this choice, you -
Blog / Life after MIT
Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving
. I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break Good times all around.
career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co -
Blog / Challenges
uncertainty becoming a boring adult
college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts -
Blog / Advice
an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history
get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
-lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods
hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college
’ve made while in college... 1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from -
Blog / Admissions
Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11
back to my airport hotel in the interest of getting out early because of ... 'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian -
Blog / MIT Life
Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.
good, because I was starving. I decided to get adventurous, so I bought ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually