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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  dinner. They use a special GRT dining card to swipe all of us into the ... Bostonians use to ride the T."]back to campus[/annotation]. I was surprised ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  't supposed to do? yes 041. Been in love? yes 042. Fired a gun? no 043. Been ... using a wall)? no 079. Who would you like to see right now? my mommy 080 ... . Drank alcohol? yes 032. Gone to a mall? no 033. Eaten a box of Oreos? no

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a ... wielding academic language to dress up a platitude. This isn’t to say that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free time, skills that come in handy when it comes to hand-crafted memes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8 ... : because I never gave myself a break in that class, leading to numerous ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a bit nervous going in, I thought the film did quite a good job; I enjoyed ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you ... Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a ... in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about ... will be my second time in the Monologues and I am so stoked to be a part

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  degree, you're asked to use your expertise to tackle a realistic, complex ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... we shorten to ICE (because we're so cool.) ICE is a capstone senior

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in ... the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... in the commons     I also definitely made a trip back to ... -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• 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 / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009