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  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore throughout the entire weekend I was there, yet two people pointed it out the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go). Looking back now, it was a great fit for me and I had an amazing experience

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud ... and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  !!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in ... (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... and distant future presents. Her energy is unfamiliar (if I got only four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... , over IAP! Photo by Sam Range '13. At 2:25, I then recall my first

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  - what are YOU up to this summer?! I'm going to open this up to you guys - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I ... them - I have slow internet here) and don't send me 5 pictures that are 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I feel less guilty publishing this during IAP since IAP is designed to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... studying over the holidays business? Well, for the first week or so I was ... … you know. So uh, I’ve been putting things off. Sigh, I foresee

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it ... e-mail from Dr. Jean-Francois Hamel, my 10.28 professor, who I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... . (Mind you, I'd recently taught my son to say "Miss April, you are so ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  !! (I totally felt like Pat Sajak as I wrote that ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes ... documentation, bottom right.   ——   But, no finals meant I was free ... on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water ... the scanner in CopyTech and my belated post could finally be uploaded. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010