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• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  picture at Little Venice in London gave me a deja-vu. I hope my nerdy/silly photos gave you all a good laugh!  :) Relax, be confident and believe in ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... , President L. Rafael Reif was doused with ice water from a ten foot tall wooden

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

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I ... I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  debating the finer points of reaction scheduling in a batch process with our ... My Mondays are horrible. I'm thinking about bringing a camera with me next Monday so you all can see what they're like, but until then here's a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers ... Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight ... stars. We're going to turn this thing into a YouTube phenomenon, alright

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  loves me and is really excited that I got in and is also really excited to see her next week when she comes home for spring break. Your turn! A ... So you're admitted! You're a rockstar! So I'm bringing this post back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  spent at least an hour going through a massive checklist of everything in ... called in for a little help. Enter the DAO (Director of Ambulance ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  experience, messing up is pretty much guaranteed. On the other hand, a 24-pack ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... -ish Fall Out Boy album. tbh I feel so-so about the album as a whole, but I do

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  Friday was the annual Activities Midway, a hugely popular Orientation ... Activities (ASA). The ASA is an entirely student-run organization that ... power of self-governance here! [full disclosure: I am a former officer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  , visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 13th ... . There is a similar link for forgotten usernames. If you're having

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... Storm, an M.I.T.-trained scientist who specializes in genetic research... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... ’m like - HEY! That’s great! And then I remember, the public library IS MY ... uniquely American institution.  At a time when budget cuts across the nation

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29 by Joy X. '29

  

  ="attachment_120878" align="aligncenter" width="719"] Spherical Tim (in a vacuum) - he ... 2029, but I ran out of time. Maybe that will come in the future. Anyway, enjoy–or shudder in fear; some of these are truly cursed. [caption id

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... years” with a newfound sense of panic and gloom. I'm in a different world ... 've-only-met-once-during-freshman-orientation-and-does-that-merit-a-smile-or-wave-or-nod-in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... top three. (Surprisingly, No. 1 Party Anthem is not a song by The Smiths

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties, then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I ... "Not the same few colleges," which also consumes a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  minute because it is the bitter end of a remarkable journey. Although this is not the end of my trip in Germany, it feels like the end of a ... -Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012