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  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  classroom - it happened in the sleazy bars of Madrid, the intriguing i ... The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  United States for about two weeks, whereas I spent all of this summer in ... 've never had an In-N-Out burger you can't even begin to understand what I ... college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to MIT, one of my concerns was that if I graduated from here, I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  : *eye roll* Not all of SD is farmland; I’m from Rapid City, which is in the ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... cultural zeitgeist in South Dakota; I know a lot of people at MIT who have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... the town of Hull. "Why not just build three windmills then?" I asked. We ... with the Boston Phoenix last year. So, in groups of five we somehow made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  been building since Thursday. Since I hadn't been in charge of the ... that I've had in a very, very long time - it was great to see all of East ... Bar feels like the end of an era :( can’t wait to be in Nisha’s shoes in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... other things, but mostly taking in the quiet of the city at night. Amber ... day off after the last day of classes, I let myself sleep in. I spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  friends and b) a lot of the people I knew were planning on staying in ... across the river in Boston itself. I liked the location of the apartment ... section of the city. MIT exists in a sort of bubble, and it's so easy to get

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why ... i wonder if i ever will perhaps this is all in vain, some kind of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted ... inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  . I can't help but be excited. International selection. Choosing ... teacher, and this year's CPW keynote speaker). One of the reasons I really ... and education, and we need more celebrations of excellence in these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in ... very good—some of it comes from a lack of experience, but I also suspect ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Burton-Connor? Come represent your floor in a fast-paced game of "Sex ... charities: the Childrens Hospital of New Orleans and a high school in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... acrophobia and just general disappointment in the way ladders are built, I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods ... wanted to drink something with a taste, I opened one of my like 50 cans of pineapple. So, I mean, I totally ran out of all those, and had to buy some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014