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  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  us know that you wish to be considered for a blogging position. As most ... built a swingset for my kids! Prior to CPW, I used a wheelbarrow to haul ... thing: Not bad for a non-engineer, eh? On Saturday, my MIT co

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you all for a great time at ISEF. Tomorrow, MIT Admissions has the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  motorcycle, my legs exposed, everything seemed to move so fast. I was, for a ... easier. Already I was itching for a next time. I returned to the test site ... The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  , but for the most part, you can just imagine it as a bunch of people ... . Rolling for insight on a situation, rolling for deception, rolling for ... not. For example, if you try to do something cool, or say a piece of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  packing for a flight that weekend, things have gone pretty well. i aced 6 ... things would work. every time i'd look for a pause, i couldn't, because it'd be waiting for a download to finish or for a program to build. our

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... attended a one-hour body sculpt class for the public. The next morning, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... for a few seconds, as if to convince me it was real, and not a spark of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  the bureaucracy for refusing to let me take one over a minor ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  very close to classes. Anecdotal proof: --- For five years, I'd had a ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the ... pops for the occasion. After the party and a birthday cheesecake for one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... food restrictions that people had (for instance, Hendrik was a vegetarian ... built a lot of fun little things. I made a sound effects module for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... . June 6th is that edge of the flat, flat world. Or if you're looking for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... few days I've been busy designing a new television commercial for ... on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  architecture major plotting to become a writer), I went into journalism for ... (for a friend's wedding! a lovely reason to return), ft. a peek at the ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot ... might come from having been at MIT for a while already - from becoming an "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... ; Binged on reading Reddit and various macros. I'm particularly a sucker for ... difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with ... students and probably cooler) for next year, so we decided it would be a good ... for grad school. That would have made this whole decision business a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  lines increases exponentially. For a 6 oz Iced Coffee from Dunkin' Donuts ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  dough for Loaf #3 chillaxed in the fridge for two and a half days in hopes ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a ... people to "ask more dumb questions". I had a few, but I'll leave them for ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007