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  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  two flights of stairs. I sat down, babbling to my friend Eric about the ... . On Wednesday, something mortifying happened that totally eclipsed my ... Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... 'm set on switching [annotation note="actually my friends are probably used ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... eventually my advisor sits me down and says, “Amber, you have not completed sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  instantly killed any green babies my friends had the misjudgment to leave in ... plants. I'm not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former ... could see from my bedroom while I read applications. After he moved out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... receiving end of chore assignments. Girlwise by Julia Devillers was my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year

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

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering ... (read: non-MIT) visitors, locking myself out of my room two times in one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Continuing my last entry with even more tales of what my friends and ... changed my life each and every time I've gone. I am ecstatic to come back to ... themselves. Little do my campers suspect that they may actually be in for a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  solutions. I started off recognizing some of my outstanding friends building ... of 2018!   You know, When I reflect on some of my favorite ... ’d fine me if they caught me.   But my journey down the infinite might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... practically gallop. I think one of my fellow '11s put it quite well: "Taking ... , eh? So this was my day: 1:17 AM: Began studying for the 18.03 test

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  unqualified to answer. Karen said: When I visited, my tour guide told us you ... makes me feel important. Here goes: There are only four "cat-friendly ... , is not cat friendly, and we've even received e-mails telling us to not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the 2006 World Cup is "a time to make friends." Who wouldn't want to be friends with a Swedish transvestite in aviator glasses? We ate lunch at ... the frenzied atmosphere within, but not really. As I said in one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  video from last year is here. It was made by my friend Seve '05 (who's now ... and a nice chunk of money to do with it what they wish. My entry, for ... people sitting in my entry's main lounge doing some combination of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  time, my friend samara and i were wandering around the east side of ... adventures around the boston area? one day, my friends and i heard rumors that ... point during my junior year, we also found an abandoned tunnel near south

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... -marathon was an idea from this summer, when two of my friends suggested we do it ... presumably trying to make more climate-friendly choices. The second challenge

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  performances. My friend Becky '09 practices belly-dancing in there all the time. I know because she always has to borrow my CD player. This is the ... with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  backdrop. From there, dancers came in what my friend says is "traditional ... This past weekend, I went to my first ballet! Unfortunately, my ... only live ballet I have ever been to is my [annotation note="my sister

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  to continue eating it. A few months ago, my friends and I went to a ... hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... . Well, first I lowballed myself. The suggestion I had given was too low for my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  . Shame that I wasn’t graduating ‘on time’. Sadness that many of my friends ... zine, and publish it. I enlisted the help of one of my friends for the ... of the few memorable things I did was watch Euphoria with friends in my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time ... ="Almost as bad as my notes app..."]my drafts folder.[/annotation] As if blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020