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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... it out of the park. I'm still sitting in awe. It's my purest form of ... love all types of puzzles in a hunt, but when I think about what it means

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... and operating conditions, a building designer can simulate in realtime

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season ... -to-bed-and-embarrassingly-to-the-bathroom-at-like-2-AM. In my most recent inventory, I have over 40 of these oddities ... think I drew a piece of cake). Then, we were supposed to come in on a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... 'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  income students. The fair was held in the Great Hall of City College, a ... 'll be participating in ISEF, best of luck to you, and I hope to see you ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my ... by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... Jonathan Safran Foer. Sorry for the lack of blogging over the past week, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... -care! In just this first month of school, we have already reached high levels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already ... right corner of Thursday. Allan: In this week of September, I had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  LOT of paints, and I’m hoping to start painting something awesome in the ... me some in the comments, I'll see what I can do. :) ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... virology, and I can find others who share the same strange combination of ... The City of Rome in the Age of the Caesars

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... 's Green Building Challenge implemented a diverse variety of strategies in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... largest outdoor market in Africa. You can find virtually anything there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it's right in front of you! (although I was semi-freezing to death when I took ... concept of leadership. Model United Nations (in which I'm their President

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009