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  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  -Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... video if you will be offended in any way, this is a family friendly blog ... 2:15 we left the dorm and headed for the subway. I was dressed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  . Particularly in STEM courses, there was a group who called themselves "The Nerd ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... didn't take a single one. Instead, I buried myself in AP Government and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  . Believe it or not, that red blur is a swinging freshman in a red shirt. And ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... cool out there in the courtyard: This interesting spinning ride, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  days, however, is just one of many things I have done in during my summer ... and in between departments on a scooter. About a month into summer ... wait in line - another friend of ours, a TRUE fan, saved our spots for 12

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of 2018 meetup in a couple weeks, so if you are in the area and an admitted ... . Here is a picture of pretty Derp Cat being derpy :)

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  THEIR CLASS MAILING LIST The name of the game is a photo scavenger hunt ... of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for ... other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  sharing our work in such a way that other people can easily understand and find interesting. Part of it is in how we explain things, like using too ... part of it is in how we talk -- being excited when you talk, speaking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak ... I have tests in all my classes in the next few days so I thought it was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 2015 I accepted a job in Fort Wayne, Indiana and left my job in Oregon ... Mac, typed in my credit card info, hit submit, and all of a sudden I had a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... any meaning and also if today is a Tuesday or a Sunday signing a book ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... more debt than is probably healthy (financial aid statements came out a ... , MIT has a sense of humor, no doubt in my mind, I'm going there. Since

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  It's a stressful time. Finals are starting, decisions are coming out in less than twenty four hours... Doesn't it just make you wish you could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  . Partial Production, Partial Passion There is a literal folder in my google ... a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  of two parts: a big ball in the middle and many much smaller balls ... there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to point in the same direction and stay that way. Add them up, and you get a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... doesn't allow for a whole lot of off-campus adventuring.) I landed in DC ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  real thing". is there a real thing in the first place? am i so worried ... reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  should probably blog.” IAP is a wonderful, wonderful time. While all my ... , so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... they got to know me because my default face is, to quote a former classmate, "pissed off." When I do talk, it's in a monotone that's deeper than

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018