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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  , and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... altogether. Recently I purchased a bicycle, to help me commute to and from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... have electronics you want to use. Don't have a fold out tray to use ... serenade you with the song of flight. Have to wait a bit to get off of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  challenging problems to complete. It really has helped me a lot for Real ... is a whole new methodology to try and master this semester. Who knew ... packed, I tend to really enjoy the weekends. Luckily, I have a girlfriend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of ... I don't have a pair of cat ears to wear." See? Isn't that so much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  and that this wasn’t just a fever dream, and things started to calm down ... the bills and counted them one by one. While it hurt just a tinge to see ... the next four years. Needless to say, she became a really rich man that

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... ' forum, I'll try to respond both as an MIT adcom and also as a parent. This ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  sucks," every time there's a projection error, just to show how much we ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series ... presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a ... maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  taunting and the teasing came to a head. Sara misspoke one day, and Yuki ... realized that in order to burn cereal Sara must have been a spectacularly bad ... As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly answer a few common questions... ------------------------------------- So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... athletes were held to a lesser standard than everyone else. This was ... been a great way to network and meet fellow MIT alums from the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... and drinks that you could smell from a mile away. Beast tried to make ... . He will be remembered always, and we wanted to dedicate a part of our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005