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  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Had we not put in all this extra effort though, our scores would have ... . In retrospect, we wish we would have really, truly internalized “it ... : we got 1st place in the math poster portion of the Meeting of the Math

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  's what the list would look like [annotation note="Disclaimer: I am fully ... wholesome. I would love to find that photo."]Take a selfie with tourists ... . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... least we thought it was just in the rooms. The other day I was caught by surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .012/18.014/18.022/18.024 in that it's mainly for folks who love challenging themselves or would ... early on in High School it's been an interesting experience that I have ... development in third world countries. While I've currently dropped the seminar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  making me cry.  I wasn't sad, I wasn't in so much pain that I would ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't as difficult as I thought it would be. Just pay your rent on time and ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... Definitive 21st-Century MIT Student's Everyday Carry, but (1) I'm constantly working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... Drifter and some Nuclear Throne but I wanna buy things during the Steam sale

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  'd had the money, I would have taken a cab, but the three dollars in my ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  -off. And because I wish my desktop computer’s LCD screens would have a ... , when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I ... to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  way of putting it would be to say that I live in the stairwell between ... !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron ... do some work. When I got there, they were all hanging out in the floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  peppering of apple orchards across this region. I buy all fruit from grocery ... 80% more blog for the same price by throwing in an IAP update. Also, I ... messily slathered Boston with snow. I slept on bean bags in another dorm and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048 ... dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is ... ! celebrated the birthdays of two very important people in my life i'm so happy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  our row in Symphony Hall. So, I asked the funnylookin guy next to me ... fashion show on February 1st at the Museum of Science. I went to the show ... "Clothes Off Your Back" challenge. I'm giddy. In other news, I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006