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  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  you really wanted to embarrass (uh...) in the middle of class. By far ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... ! [Class groans.] Come on, what else is there to do in bed?" 9.04, Neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... /MArch program, which student can apply to in their junior year. In the junior year ... to support students. I considered majoring in Architecture when I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile ... semester. We also incorporated many of them in our formal presentations to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more ... following: I never had to get better at bowling before, because I always used ... " and suffer without safety nets in order to learn is an idea I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... . Here are some essay tips to consider (in no particular order): Don ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my ... , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  in bed, wanting to take a nap even if i feel well-rested. i've started ... senioritis in non-schoolwork things too. i don't feel like going to many of the events i'm interested in. there's talks and outings i would've liked to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  them again. But in the meantime, I love getting to call people to watch ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... to. Going in on the first day, I had absolutely no expectations. In my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis ... people showed up that I didn't get to talk with everyone. I hope that if I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here ... comparable in its effect to the Great Firewall of China Kill websites that ... sites within five days. It also encourages payment processors to engage in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  Airbender, write poetry, and spend more time getting to know the area better ... forwards to looking back, and seeing the changes creep in. One final note ... reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  someone to 7/11 to get snacks. parading in the middle of the streets of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting ... -distant, of course) a few times in the park near my house. we danced to old

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... that point in my life, i was lonely, anxious about not getting into MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... experience what it's like to live in a place where it snows. "I know it's one ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006