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• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I ... I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :) ... You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  . 47. I wish i could take control of my emotions. 48. I can't wait till ... with only one or two people. 09. I can't live without lipgloss. 10. I can ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... it's nice having this bit of context i can share with my friends ... performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  am unhappy and what else I can do to be happy (usually, one of the ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be ... people cheer and cars honk in the street. I ate a lot of vegetables, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... towards. In this meeting, I also asked her if there are any kinds of ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Garamond. While on the topic of system fonts, here's two posters I saw in ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... INSIDE" in Helvetica Bold Condensed. At first, I thought that the "FIRE

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  number of letters in the word. Okay, in case I'm not making sense, here ... I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year ... on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER. And in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can ... world today, or I was blind and now suddenly I can see, and everything was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high school that I didn't take advantage of its task categorization, as you can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  would change if I didn't get in. I certainly wouldn't think less of ... 't get in, and I knew exactly what I was afraid of - and that the physical ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  wide range of opportunities, and I’m able to serve my country in a way ... (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019