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  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid-January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... for bed.   Thursday 9:45am. My alarm wakes me up, and I snooze

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  , rice pilaf, and steamed brocolli with ice cream for dessert. Total ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to ... for a new show for high school kids. We were too old :-( In the

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . You. All things for the greater glory of blogging. Fun fact No. 1: I ... -ly.) It also means that people 'round these parts assume I know some stuff about ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  problems, feel free to take it up with them.” The man looked at the two of ... people like us have to deal with. I would like to say that I haven’t had to ... might help those with these questions understand why I believe a movement

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  institution, and principally this office, for giving a goofy kid with curly ... All dates are auspicious, but some more than others. For me, August ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a ... to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... with a doctor: Dr. Lester: Which of these two letters comes first, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  -to-Northern Maine with some people from my dorm. The Edwards Dam apparently didn't do much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  try and fail: to tackle hard psets, to sign up for difficult classes, to ... year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had fun; sophomore and junior year, I stuck with the clubs I cared about the most and learned more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  immediately follow it with another test that I would need to study copiously for ... left 3 days to study for two classes, each with finals I needed to ace ... , ditch that hope, and appeal to logic. With no 8s in play, and three

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  award with two others: David Card (of UC Berkeley) and Guido Imbens (of ... awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  have been one of my 6.005 team members)), was playing video games (for ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  manageable ostomy pouch for people with certain cancers, diseases or injuries ... with a vibrating alarm, there’s room for all of it. Maybe I’ll try to ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... cake with chocolate icing, the only kind of cake I really like! Our

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... question I've been wrestling with for my whole life (in one sense) and/or for ... that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but ... application season, and if so, then this post is for you! First I’d like to ... abroad, and the answers I'd give with the experience I now have, (which is

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  more laid-back version of CPW, with just as much fun but a little more ... the top of Kresge Auditorium: And all of this was mixed in with some ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  obvious love for math or science), will the admissions staff get suspicious ... maliciously deceptive with our question. You can write about ANYTHING that you ... major (or science & math), that is COMPLETELY fine as well. For

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  also one of the primary reasons for why i work hard, why when i have free ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• 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.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... ’s important to know that there are families in State College with multiple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012