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  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  every other week (no pset this week, YAY!). 5.12 (Orgo) hasn't yet caused ... starts with, "I don't know why I remember..." I wrote the following - a ... consequently edited. Please don't judge me too harshly! :'( Now, without

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  isn't the point of FIRST, or rather, it's a means, not an end. The point ... excited. Trust me, you haven't seen excited until you've seen 6,000 students ... competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of ... writing classes. The authors here aren’t the most polished, professional ... with the letter V and ended with the letters “for Vendetta,” you can't

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don't ... Jewish holiday! Oh, wait, no it doesn't. I don't get those days off from ... and hit the road by 9:30; however, traffic wasn't bad and we still found

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... wakarimasuka?" She didn't know where it was exactly, but she looked at the map ... golf but wasn't very good at it. She told me she and her husband were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... company since it was like a "omg-I-can't ... , on the other hand, explicitly stated that he didn't even consider

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don't ... , the average MIT student is more than conscious of problems that don't

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came from, we don't know who might have put them there, but they were quickly ... fleas (though I certainly haven't heard a word of thanks) sleeping in my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can't ... sophomore—to her first class, 6.00. Course 6 isn't really my cup of tea ... EAsT CamPUS tours, we met yet another Facebook prefrosh. Despite the

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  's questionably-colored carpet. I don't know what it is about me and public transportation and babies. Though I don't visit home particularly frequently, going ... 've changed into your footsie pajamas (okay, I don't have footsie pajamas, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won't ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have ... morning at the Museo del Prado. I didn't even know what was at the Prado, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  . Unfortunately Sauza couldn't make the picture, and the little girl, well, we don't ... following format from Milena: Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Didn't spend a lot of ... , technically this isn't part of CPW, but it is in Boston, so it's worth

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  same year. I didn't really know any current students, and I surely was ... was made up, so there wasn't really anything else I could do. August 22 ... night: misery of no air conditioning. i don't really know much about my

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  'm sitting down here at the Burton-Conner front desk remembering why I don't ... knock on the glass--you don't have to open the door for them in this case ... let someone in who doesn't live here, check their MIT ID, ask who they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was ... eat on campus, so you don't fall victim to ordering overpriced pizzas at ... you don't like tofu, teriyaki chicken also rocks. And some days when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... little nervous about applying (aren't we all?), especially because me ... that stuff, but it means he doesn't really have to worry about getting in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  'll admit that I chose MIT and that the decision (for me) wasn't very difficult. Seriously, I couldn't pass up this place, and I'll tell you why ... whole place is bursting with life (and drunk baseball fans) and you can't

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  still haven't started my third pset that's due tomorrow." Faux ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet ... the amount of work they had done for a class--"Oh, I didn't even bother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... T and talking trash about northern California weather. (65 degrees ... , cause I haven't answered any recently: 1. Phil asked, Is it really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the ... . Mike asked, "I don't want to sound materialistic or whatever, but can you ... students, so don't worry about being materialistic! Yes, you can do a UROP

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006