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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get ... material that I am likely never to use in my future. For those of you who are

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in ... people in the wing. we buy a cake, sing our own version of happy birthday

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Logan. But I don't hate flying. In fact, I kind of like it. Sure ... 've come to appreciate and enjoy. Normally I would hate being without wifi ... , with a minor in biomedical engineering. Then, that changed when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , since I told him that I would be up late. We staggered around packing my ... the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  standup is scheduled to be fifteen minutes long. 10:30 AM i came in a bit ... -your-own-burrito, except i make a bowl instead. i'm second in line, which turns out to be a ... a month is back, and i pour myself a cup. for the first time in two

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  I would go on to China. Rather than be homeless in Boston, it was time ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... I resisted getting Starbucks. In any case, right when I was beginning

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have ... was in a HASS last semester that only had seven students in it, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  knowledge gained in 8.02 (Physics II-- Electricity and Magnetism), I would ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most innovative and progressive universities in the world and I always have loved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over ... an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now ... that I think of it, might not have been the best thing to do in front of ... degree in whatever major his little, fermented heart desired. I bet Milk

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... 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 / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009