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  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... parts! Me: *clicks in* AHHH. Zach: *reads* The key to making a concise ... * Physics Instructor (in an email): Due to a confusion of dates on the course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about ... able to replace it overnight. Back at home, we have a Rottweiler ... : Live next door to a celebrity accomplished. Now, to my first pets ever

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... bustling, 24/7 lifestyle. No longer could I afford to spend hours on a single

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... to babble incoherently and to hilarious effect. It's a useful skill

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... opportunity to elaborate a little on what she said, because it's an interesting ... weird enough to find something appealing about living in a building that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  honestly more of a long essay that happens to be bound than a book, but I got ... Gene by Siddartha Mukherjee (the sequel-ish to a book above) (was too ... -fi stories (!!!!), in a very organic way. Going to try and add to that~ Some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  drink's ancient history for a cultural perspective to recreate Lassi. I ... planning in some way, and this one was conducive to that (since planning is a ... world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way you

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping ... ending and i have an apartment to fill" "i have a suitcase to pack" "and i ... I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  CTY, they feel like the opening scenes to a series of intense coming-of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn ... our successes, we forget what it feels like to be a beginner. Suddenly ... favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  described them to a friend "like stacked rocks." They are delicate and hard at ... with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James ... words with my own pen. "There is a strong argument to be made," Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  not be done, because you are too afraid to let a tradesperson see your ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course ... would motivate me to put it away so that I would have, you know, a floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... fallen to 16% when I decided, fuck it, it was time to call a cab. The light ... planning this day out better, so that I wouldn’t have needed to call a cab. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... ) is swapped between the two systems. I happen to be planning a massive

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of ... was turned off by academia, and wanted to explore those interests in a ... 'm a little late to the party -- they've already been featured in Popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge ... close. I hoped to achieve a look that seems like fabric from afar but up ... -use than make a Trashion piece? Make sure to look out for parts of her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015