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  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  thing begins blaring and blaring and oh please shut up! Anyway, I manage ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , and arrive home in California by noontime. I promptly called up some friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because ... drive (so you don't end up like me, 18 and unlicensed). See a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , smoothing the fabric and sucking up skin cells and water and oils from between ... hear about our neighbors, and what their children have been up to. You ... ? Is that legal?” she said into the telephone. Mrs. Concord stood up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  Video. I'm now completely caught up and am awaiting the sixth and final ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep ... crop up pretty much everywhere. In my person

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... , went up to the counter, and spoke with the very nice fishmonger who spoke ... : ? Me: Um...skate? Man: ? Daniel pulled out his iPhone and looked up the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  , any new building project or renovation allots up to $250,000 to ... ;closer.” You’re welcome. Next up is a piece that I’m quite ... when you’re trying to simultaneously listen to the guide, set up

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  . The Rush Chairs commence a speech. We are getting better at cleaning up ... there was about a 2-foot square hole in the wall. By getting a leg up from ... feet long. We finished our calculations, stood up, brushed off our knees

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  kids grow up into real people. Many of my former students who are now ... waist - was right in front of me, looking up and talking earnestly. As I ... your skull like a paper bag now!!" And he looked up at me, grinned, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... personally brought up this opportunity made it seem like it was a good thing ... everyone’s energy. People came right up to me and introduced themselves, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  elusive nature, up above the world so high, appearing like diamonds in the ... up in McDonald's and thought that potatoes excreted salt and canola oil when you planted them the right way and ended up as dehydrated mashed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early ... "beaver down."   Kelly '09 is giving an excited thumbs up. She ... pretty smart. Then Susan Hockfield got up and made another speech. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  presentation, walking up and down stairs, more presentations, milk and cookies ... , I dozed into soundless oblivion. I was standing up. The presenter was ... problem: I'm programmed to wake up at 7:30 AM naturally, and I haven't yet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  't really thought about writing another blog on it until an email popped up ... holding diplomas begin filling up your school's hallways and the sites that ... programs spring up faster than ever. These services convince you that with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... of the week. On Wednesday, all BoC hosts showed up to help Ben. The ... entice more callers, Ben kept upping the ante. First, for $50, Ben would

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  thought I would be giving all this up by coming to Cambridge. Seriously ... fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti ... intermission between the two ensembles' concerts, I met up with Ananth '12 in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator ... special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of ... it was time to start on that palm tree that I swore up and down to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... of college. I found that the more I was up and about, forcing myself to ... upperclassmen are up and about on campus, trying to meet all of you and hear your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  included city-wide pillow fights, web-comic meet-ups, no-pants subway rides ... summer is heating up, thus, it is with pride that Banditos Misteriosos ... bet our countrymen never gave up due to a little bit of precipitation

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your ... time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008