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  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it ... that would require somebody buying me spray paint (because apparently you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  the exact numbers; I couldn't tell you even if I thought it would be ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  meetings a week and DPhiE the same and I would love time to just sit and do ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  :00 PM; Athletics Fair in Rockwell Cage, 2:00-4:00 PM (bonus: I'll be in a ... administered by the medical school. I hopped on the CT2 bus last Friday to go buy ... every premed in the world would give his or her right cerebral cortex to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate ... year. I felt that if I wanted to thrive in MacGregor, I would need to ... a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... .']our Area Director.[/annotation] It would be fine, right? I had done the math

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  relationship with my ex-girlfriend. He and I would break rules that were in ... they would check in before my ex graduated and I lost my opportunity. I ... graduation pictures wondering if I would see him in one.  (Junior Spring, Take

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... ,000 miles prior. The cost, even at the voc tech, would've been in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying ... past three months. The summer after my junior year I was only in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came ... burg, and I could count down the miles to home. I live in State College ... Vanilla and Orchid Body Wash. The Colbert Report I’ve been interested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... workload, I braced myself for this weekend—I knew I would be [annotation note="I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  I would spend time at the board figuring out problems. It was also in ... dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... make [annotation note="i can teach anyone to make dotted lines in 20

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021