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  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  teacher. Here, whenever I get the chance to go to a party with dancing, I ... if you get the opportunity. One summer night, after staying in lab ... dance floor. I know Cassi Hunt. In fact, she was my "date" to the boat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... list of things one ought to do in order to get in. Do note that they don ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going ... visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer ... . Now it's time to meet in real life :) And hopefully, you don't tell me

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  admitted, do you guys get to just relax until fall travel starts up again?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things

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

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  ’t intending to get an orange bike. I was just looking for something in decent ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment ... was careful to look him in the eye. "I guess I have two main concerns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  , semesterly dues every month, the possibility of having to live in the house ... that I was chosen by lottery to live in the house and my options were to a) get a doctor's note saying I can't live in the house by some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  picture getting married to him. So we revelled in the teenage dream that is ... getting married to that person, having kids with that person, getting old ... didn’t really want to talk to. And real in-person interactions only

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be ... (in the movies the mentor usually gets killed instead of leaving to get ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... without needing to wash it- I can get ice cream from the Baskin Robbins

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  school are getting married. It's a weird thing to be a female scientist in ... 'll get to some answers next time I check in. EDIT: I stuck a really super ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  rivalries. And since media is everywhere, this class also means I get to write ... we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a ... anime episode--and there is a challenge to managing that time in the best

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot ... ;Introduction to Research Topics in Neuroscience.” Emilienne says that ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007