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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus ... church that is about to open on Park Ave. We would not have many of the ... , the safest small city in America, and one of the best places to live or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  semester is going to be class heavy because I'm doubling up on HASS classes ... resources and help to be found. On top of that, the lecturer, Professor Terman ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  about eight months, give or take. But, in the middle of it, it seemed to ... Naruto, I can’t think of a better way to end this ... it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  of this bluntness is on cigarette packaging. Somehow, even though you ... trip with my lab. The state motto there is "live free or die" which ... Free or Die Hard." "Wait, actually, I think that is the name of the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ' here. It is frustratingly hard to believe that with every particle of my ... (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  . You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B ... compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  day, it’s my go-to way of organizing a blog post. Or take To the ... typography, or to continue the train of thought, how words are written. I don ... medium is different. Books were meant to be read with light shining on them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  ’s got to be a better word for that kind of mood…) The gist is, if you have ... (which might seem weird to some of you, but for me it’s actually really ... of the rudder to try to balance the boat which of course made it more

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  . Yum. No pictures though, it wasn't on my plate long enough to photograph ... not as hot, no humidity, and a pleasant trickle of breeze (MIT is also ... , Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, iRobot, or any of those other "MIT summer job

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  Market once because it was on sale. He is currently undergoing an emotional ... sight of your daily itinerary inspires schizophrenia. Which is why it's so ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended

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

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who ... , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... (professional hockey), then to Nike, where he was Vice President of Global Sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  ," which is our tendency to return to a stable level of happiness in spite of ... ) to 10 (Always). The first number is my result from the beginning of ... 's supposed to help thwart mind-wandering and "hedonic adaptation," which is the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to start and we knew what our ending was, which is kind of rare. It ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... . It was set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, but in order for us to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... staves made of PVC pipe covered in foam, which is covered in duct tape ... first time I heard of it). pika is an Independent Living Group, or ILG. An

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  usually get a small soup or entree to go with my gargantuan plate of rice ... going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  debathena, which is forming the basis for the new release of the Athena system ... keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... magic formula to engineer most of life’s important outcomes.  Sure, you can increase your likelihood of success by being smart, or hard

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  of med school, and starting to agonize over which one of these to ... , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... feigned (or even forced!) interest from true passion. Of course we like to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  I see on reddit — there’s this sense that people want to know all of ... want, or what do I want out of life, sometimes you aren’t ready to answer ... knowledge is incredibly meaningful, too. On one of the first problem sets I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  . The description of the game on our website is... "After tens of ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007