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  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  for your delayed connection." "Though you sprinted through the airport ... spoke with the last agent. There is no hope for you." "Oh, you can standby ... constructively. Ideas For Improved Holiday Travel On Airlines I was delayed for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... High School. I was treated to a pre-game show by the School Marching Band

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... 's why Wikipedia was invented. I think Wikipedia is the ideal task for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  , drawing, playing music. It's no secret to my friends that I consider myself ... physics and math my friends are doing and my head plays radio noise -- a ... . In fact, lab was the reason I realized my love for STEM. It was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  guest post series* Home Sweet Home I was not imagining coming home for the ... case study later, I was locked and loaded to return to Michigan for my summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  finance for a few years and make as much money as possible and then spend ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  school kid for his lunch money. Well, I couldn't stand for that, so I ... I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  for Carlos-the-brain-and-cog-sci-grad-student who played Officer ... , for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student." Me ... enjoy it." Rational Part Of Brain: "You like sleep way too much for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions ... , extracurricular opportunities that may cost money to participate in, and nearly ... college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  do you want to keep playing or not A: it's december thirty-first B ... like it's right there B: well for me it's more like B: a maze of switches ... A: i think i just have so much hate and resentment for myself A: that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  Thanks Yuliya for hosting this blog! I’m not out off-campus, so I ... club that is for LGBTQ+ folk in fraternities and Sororities! They host ... Queer West and Simmons Join Queer West and Simmons residents for an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post ... dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit. Yes, I play in it during the year.) b) Ry and Dad are fans of Diners ... opportunity for a burger. Mr. Bartley's are awesome. Also, their sweet potatoes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  keys obnoxiously expired while I was busy playing minesweeper* or ... play minesweeper to protect U.S. troops from setting off hidden mines in ... program that paid for countless free dinners and concert tickets last year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  plays over the Cambridge skyline. It's a small gesture of remembrance, for ... deceptively suave, are nothing more than clumsy stunt doubles for the ... MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  , design, and photography club. 23:50: Done playing for the day. Back to ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life at MIT post)   8:45: Wakeup. For real this time, after 10

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... ’m doing are super exciting. I have one other big goal this summer. For the ... 50 hours a week at UTSW, I’m hoping I find answers for myself soon. Oh

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  playing this song for like the next three days >"<. It's funny how ... ) conference for high schoolers. -Ordered my Brass Rat! -Went to a college MUN ... !) - directing the program for so long had made me start to use the program as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best ... see for yourself. I consider myself a nerd proudly, but at the same time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006