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• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  't updated in 6 days; you guys are my American Idols. I also discovered while ... would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the ... to Dvorak, would set me back about $20. That's just stupid. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  atomic physicist. In fact, I definitely would have tried to angle myself ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  mushrooms, I include them in almost every meal greens: I buy a mixed baby ... normal definition of the word, but it's what I would call ragu in Russian ... for all but one semester. This summer in Berlin, I lived alone again

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  applications in cursive, I would probably be a starving artist right now. The ... really "in the know," but I think Marilee Jones would be quite pleased if ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the pronunciation. How would you pronounce it? I, forever, thought it ... told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in ... always a luxury students get to enjoy). I've been known to spend an hour in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... , but I would keep getting hosed :( but a few weeks agp, I wasn't hosed ... exhibit but I did go into the gift shop to see if I wanted to buy anything

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... ... even though I should have learned it perfectly in 8.022. We also sang ... again. Had I not gone to Six Flags, I would have gone to see the "24-hour

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I ... an unsuspecting victim in STS.001. But I the single most memorable moment this video that I watched, oh, I guess about five years ago today in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose: I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I ... involved in the hack, so I knew all about it ahead of time. Last Saturday night, I received an anonymous email telling me there would be a hack put

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure. Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... illusion. I would like to find an astronomer to talk to. I think how people ... I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  before buying anything, I would not buy anything, period. Things are just ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore. Because, you know, American food? Something I’ve seen in the movies. The way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... am as an omnivore. Earlier in the summer I'd do about two meals a day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... cartographic reality in Boston. Once freshman year, I had gotten my hair cut near ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006