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  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  the following lessons about life: Focus on the shot you’re lining up ... . Focus on the action, not the result. Don’t look up at the target. Fire ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against ... in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us ... , the louder main street from which the others climb up. *       * Period

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my ... the kitchen, dangling my legs up at the ceiling like I used to when I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... ’s horn. Then it hit me. Snow! I was so excited I made my roommate stay up

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them ... street, and the man who found it looked me up so that he could return it ... badly beaten up. Anecdote 4: About a month ago, on a cold rainy night, a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... 600- to 800-pound weights on the ballast (“Once the rockets are up, who ... . Outside in Briggs Field birds swoop, land in batting nets, and pick back up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... :45am second alarm (actually wake up) 9:17am get out of bed 9:27am realize ... hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... hand shot up first. (In my boyfriend's words: "Classic Anna.") Marc ... , and to really let them know once their five minutes were up. Every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Thursday: 7:30–Wake up, roll over and fall asleep 7:50–Wake up again, play a song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela ... else during the regular semester. 4:00–Waiting is done! Close up the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  of laws and ending up on various rooftops around campus. Hacks could be considered “pranks” at any other school but since MIT makes up its own words ... ago with some crazy Senior House people dragging a car up onto their

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... ponytail and red ribbon. It's just that kind of day. 9:15 -- I hit up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... unfortunate ball, and have up until that point been doing pretty Okay in the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... understanding of it. After my final all-nighter I woke up to someone waddling down ... decided to break up. Half an hour later he came up to my room to collect his

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  , Winnie suggested we turn the drawing into a light up acrylic sign. And ... . After rushing back from Chipotle, I speedran a more cleaned up digital ... ="84995" image2="85346" /] While Winnie was setting up the LED strips, I laser cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... this didn't have to happen. Culture doesn't come up just because people ... have come up. Following the lead of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, dozens of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  write up his experience as a project lead this year, giving you all a peek ... holding up speed squares as a reference, but it was difficult to completely ... to getting as many posts up as possible. Another thing we changed this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam ... ! Wherever you end up, whatever you end up doing, we're confident that you will

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018