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  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding ... , I love the beach, so I figured this would make me happy. But the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an MIT blogger, I would not post as sparsely as a Donald Trump's hair. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board ... music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  begin with.  I wasn’t planning on buying anything in particular, but then ... song is so well written and there’s so much raw emotion in it. I would ... of them was in my hands, so I had to buy it. I’m not sure what I’ll do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Outstanding Bloggership (not in that order): I would randomly call a random ... I would include him in my project, which would immediately be ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  carve out the inside. Still unsure, I timidly stuck a petite knife in: -and left it there... Until killer instincts kicked in: I had ... shaved in the pattern of “MIT” in the back: This would all look much

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  seat in our car. i would sit in the backseat and obsessively watch the ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... , but I’m from a dry place, and good lord, save yourself and either buy or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  in, just because I wish people in this country would actually vote! I ... . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  graduation last night, mostly because I believe strongly in keeping up a tough ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in ... would be complete without pictures? Graduation was held, as always, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006