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  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  the people in the photos, Kristen Y. '19, now a The Committee member ... just a babby sophomore, my floor had a gingerbread decorating party. It was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  , we want to make sure that any applicants so affected, now or in the ... be as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do ... @mit.edu. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... to CS Programming in Python: I’m awful at programming under a time ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a ... 're making a trip in September to the DZ and we're all going to go have fun

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... th East alum who just moved to California and was back in town for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... caught a disc was in the end zone, scoring my first point ever. Memories ... did fine more or less…We even flew to Texas for a spring break

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... a barber in 5 years now. At least, not one where I had to tell them ... really spoken to a barber in the past 8 years, I walked trembling into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s cartoon? ARTHUR: (bristling) If I were in a cartoon, I”d probably be named ... , DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  college student attending a school in Massachusetts, so keep it in mind! ... ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking ... was nice to know that we had a built-in time to de-stress by cooking together. In the fall, college felt very rush rush rush to me. I had a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter ... learned a bit about winter fashion, and how to dress appropriately. I was

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  in a lifetime opportunity to speak with so many institutions.” Thanks ... hours through a snowstorm just to attend the college fair. In his words ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of students who had signed up to fly. The Deans were given a short safety brief

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in ... choose to do this in their essays (and we ask about a hardship or challenge

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... , just to wrap up a few loose ends from my last couple of entries: A lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009