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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... that there was no massive video-game-esque explosion at these crashes

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  fun & games; I've conducted 2 Central Meetings (CMs) already, with ... following the dinner was a Central Meeting. We had a nice turnout for the ... Academy. Unfortunately, I was a little late for my visit (I apologize!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... Rock Climbing Favorite Book: Ender���s Game Favorite Soda: Barq's Root

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  with too much vc money and throwing parties for the sake of throwing ... a website called partiful: think facebook events for parties. the ... was for "smart, hard-working, ambitious people in tech." now, my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more floor space for other things."]loft[/annotation]during REX, and then write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of ... several prep books, you might consider saving some money and opting out of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... 's foremost expert on formic acid fuel cells, to ask for the highest power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think ... course, I forgot that this rehearsal was actually for elections and involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  us, and stood around a getting a ring on a peg game on State Street for ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has been three months-ish since I got on campus over the summer. For just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... .  But for others, it's not so black-and-white.  If you ask them what ... maybe 1" (that's EECS, MechE, and CivilE, for you non-MIT readers). I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... -shirt, so I went with her and got it. I also played with her adorable kitten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  was usually taller than them. After playing for two hours, breaking some ... for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in ... Class of 2022 that is doing her masters at MIT for Manufacturing, was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  vampire designed to suck money out of unsuspecting high-achieving high ... answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... of art or read a book for enjoyment in a while, but I don't know how I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023