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• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... had hoped that both of us would win (Mitra first), and then I would have ... actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... 't get that in California. I should talk to my manager about the things ... support systems[/annotation] in my life, I tell HR the next day that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... he was saying, and I certainly didn't think about the ways that I would ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... balls wasn't an accurate representation of my CPW (I only went in there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... dance floor. I know Cassi Hunt. In fact, she was my "date" to the boat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another test, which was just in major scales but still hard because I suck ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  flows through his veins. Me? Raymond Tran? I haven't played chess in years ... 't phase me. But I know it hurt him. From this he would never recover. His ... months I have been secretly training in chess with hopes to beat Aidan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... first time I've felt burned out in a (metaphorically) clinical way, so it ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... 1967. Haacke decided that he would do a line drawing in the sky with a ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  work on my stuff. I thought this would be helpful in both showing you a ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  I thought you all would like to know this exciting news! Schmill ... admissions office plays in bringing these outstanding students to campus. "I ... pleasure it's been to work with them in this role," he added. "I'm humbled to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... .) *With Class of 2013 matriculation decisions due in less than three days, I ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  mother finally came home late at night, she would come in to her room and ... I had cable and I would just watch the weather channel over and over ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... bacterial sense). You see, though it is impossible to see in this photo, I ... they sprout is. I am like a great lion, tawny and magnificent in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011