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• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , you know that you wouldn't really mind a year off from the traditional ... sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or ... to do it. If you're a junior or sophomore, that's great, you have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... Report and Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements ... done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, we'll be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  … Anyway, it was great, and definitely a wonderful break from psetting and ... decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... July and boy, what a great concept. We had two chocolate fudge cupcakes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  first trading day after a country's team is eliminated from the World Cup ... was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... a "dead fold". And as if this is not enough, Parafilm can be stretched

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... 's Anonymous," which listed the following description in the IAP guide: "A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  , President L. Rafael Reif was doused with ice water from a ten foot tall wooden ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... water from another ten foot tall wooden contraption built by MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  this form. If you have a recommendation from someone who is not teaching ... /17, we should know this. Please fill out this form, so we can add a note to ... looking for missing documents until we post a blog entry saying that we have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors, ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  camping out for the book: A lesson I learned from all of this was that if ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... 've never had a professor I despised as much as Harry despised as Snape, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya!) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a ... . Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it ... test was spent studying. (It did pay off with a great score -- 1540

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  a step back from my whirring brain and wonder why I'm like this at all ... . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even ... AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  other times it’s picking out just the cashews and almonds from a large ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... , the summer before my freshman year. The questions don’t vary much from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... illumination created by a single open window in a darkened apartment complex. The ... appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  from every album that make him feel insane. A very treasured gift.   ... Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  guess I'm a blogger now. Also apparently I'm a real life MIT student now ... cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  conditions to actually visually see what these conditions look like. From a ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to college, a lack of additional colleges having been built, students taking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020