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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  friend. Protip: storage facilities in Boston/Cambridge get lots of business ... pleasure in watching the space go from cluttered to empty. It also helped me ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... , and hang out in their comments. They are here to visit from the past, to ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  . Finally, I hope you'll join me in saying thanks to the entire Records ... The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was ... news and puts me in a good mood, even though I'm studying physics right

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I ... incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... while before it was time to get back underway. He also did me the great

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  heat this way. The void whispers to grab the thing in your bare hands. At ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  get to spend time in nature, so it was a lovely day. [caption id ... friends. i never get time to watch TV during the semester, so it was wild to ... so hosed we didn't get to watch it before the others did! that night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS: - Prioritizing sleep - Exercise - Taking Timur's money in Texas Hold 'Em THREE THINGS YOU NEED IN A ... THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: - Other people dying - My debt-to-income ratio

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... enough to fit a bed. Living in a small half is a good lesson in keeping ... to match my green stripes when she lived in it last fall. It is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  had my umbrella in hand, poncho over my backpack. I was ready to conquer ... weather works when you’re not in California? Every morning I've resorted to ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• 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.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... on some Course X exams. If you happen to be in the Boston area this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  taught me not to put faith in the widespread claim that brown people don ... appropriate to be an MIT student here in Germany because we see ‘mit’ (which ... Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... realized that if i tried to chime in and say what everyone was saying... i ... at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... -festooned establishment in Uptown Manhattan that pampers to the effete relaxations of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant ... in the drill, and then taking large bows. I tried to remember slow ... beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... sometimes. In this case, some utility workers decided to mark an underground

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ... think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse ... alike ran over to watch. Really, though? Fighting in an airport terminal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  math that led to satisfying conclusions. In other words, all the things I ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... the shape of the façade. In the month that I spent there, I got to see

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021