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  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  fine on everything, so that's good. I've also been fitting in some fun ... . I've basically been trying to edge in enough structure this month to ... I have been incredibly busy so far this month. I'm taking hours away

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  well spent. I am thrilled to say that even though we do now have CPW, in ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an awesome CPW weekend. In fact, CPW didn't even exist...What did exist however

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the ... prouder than anything else, that in some small and minute way i have maybe

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... or concerts - last spring I got in free at the Angels and Airwaves

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  possible to do so, we would conduct this interview process in the Fall, when each candidate would be available for in-person interviews. However, the ... been engaged in this discussion with members of the class of 2011, the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  traveling in circles. :-) Now that I'm more familiar with the tunnels, the ... , where I find this heart (it looks much cooler in person). Click the photo ... underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... but in the end it was totally worth it. For any prefrosh thinking of applying to MIT or admitted students who are still unsure/scared, I may be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  . Others There a few other groups that I'm not very involved in. There's a ... is a close friend of mine (I live in a single now :sunglasses:) He ... So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  hours in rain or shine (or the occasional snowstorm), but I wouldn’t have ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have ... team in the middle of Colorado. Prior to crew, I never thought I could

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... luck in figuring it out. I was so excited, because everybody else was ... canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  do this - I teach rising sophomores in writing. Let me tell you, for ... greatly resembles one I stayed in for a few summers during high school with ... recommendations in the Pop collection, and we've got 13,000 CDs, so I can't be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... same day. There have definitely been days when I've had two in one day

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep ... -inducing dream about carrots baking cakes in the interim. And then I decide that ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... In late August, the Trump Administration issued an executive order ... eventually serve in the military or in the MIT ROTC program. MIT has a long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... MIT. In fact, I've set up a doodle. Don't worry about the numbers of the ... Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008