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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast ... , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... and carried it up two flights of stairs to my closet. It had waited six ... year ago. I had a pretty good plan all set up, mostly based around

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  wake up a day later. You’re still tired. You’re always tired. You slept ... in the Stata Center. You go up the elevator. You’re in the wrong tower ... there. You wake up to your alarm in bed and go to your first class. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to ... originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  NEWMAC TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS RAHHHHHH!! We snatched up that silver trophy ... abruptly snipped. I know I love athletics, so maybe I will pick up new sports ... ended. I will no doubt be tearing it up on the pickup fields at MIT and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  it would react again. Their wigglers can take them up to 3 miles per ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... ’m taking a test or something and straighten up from leaning over, the same

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  experiences you'll end up missing out on - will taunt you until you turn around ... that used to freeze me up around water. As a recovering perfectionist, I ... the resilience and coping mechanisms built up by therapy. Past a certain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... assignments and a midterm and then never follow up when your professor nicely

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... came. Some would call me foolish for getting this wrapped up in the job

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... what is? I remember reading Although of course you end up becoming ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem ... different. I wish I could keep up with why). My professor addressed me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  when you want to switch it up and hang out with people you don’t see ... experiences, and (2) we’re susceptible to fucking up, too. Collect advice, but your choices should be your own. Open up first. Whether that be your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  housing decision, I purposefully chose to switch things up from my academic-year housing. I did so with full acknowledgement that I might end up disliking it ... . For this post, I've written up 22 anecdotes from my time at tEp. (Read

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... last two years of high school, I ended up coming out to a lot of my ... didn't feel entirely safe yet. After spending seventeen years growing up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... writing up the paper, I had a reasonably big brain idea, which I actually ... sections that you wind up with: Abstract: the tl;dr of your paper, where

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  ?" was exactly what Dad had tried to teach me growing up. Acknowledge those ... general "hood nigga shit."  However, as I grew up I realized people will ... after an eight year battle with cancer. I wouldn’t give up these memorials

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Others, like Rhino and SketchUp, have associated plugins that'll do it. To ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chop up your vegetables in evenly sized

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I cleaned up my ideas and added some formatting, and thus this blog post was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... either side of us. Eating lunch during chemistry lecture. Staying up late ... up all night alone and ate an entire box of clementines. I don’t think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  set of them. Up until now, MIT has been a fun, relatively informal ... , telling myself to study, and telling myself to not give up. My parents act ... . End of story. Don't kid yourself or come up with excuses, you don't have

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008