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  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don't ... don't usually wear ties in the summer, and women never do." While this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  me! (true story, as I try to help froshies with their psets) i don't ... thing I have to say about thermo is that you don't understand it, or you.....don't understand it. :) I mean, I don't think I'm bad at it but I am still having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT ... of the program, and I was accepted. When I applied, I didn’t mention it ... home for a whole summer. You have to understand that my parents didn’t go

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  the T (only $2 to go from South Station to Kendall). Look! The first ... think it's great MIT can bring people together that haven't seen each ... this weekend, but with 1000+ prefrosh running around, I didn't get a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don't ... , reinforcing (you could punch our robot and drop it onto the table and it wouldn't ... block the opponent's 4 slot. The opponent wouldn't be able to put any

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... . This isn't the good one anyways. But I guess that's why I wear this one ... like I do to East Campus. I can't do it. I think I've been going with my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information ... truly doesn't matter who I'm with cause it's freakn' MIT!!!!!" Nadia wrote ... stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  Ina doesn't want to be cooking while the party's going on, so she gives ... really can't leave the room once you've started watching an episode. All ... '08 was a huge fan of hers. I don't know how that's even possible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  breakfast that they haven't run out yet). Ridiculously elaborate ... -night dining where that's the only option). Drink mixes Of course, I can't ... ridiculous yet simultaneously brilliant, so I couldn't possibly leave it out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  allotted late days, so I won’t incur a penalty for turning this in late. But ... , and my favorite part is when people who haven’t painted much before join ... four measures in and don’t stop until the end. 10:00 p.m. I arrive back

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... to prove myself to them; it just wasn’t going to be straightforward ... . The rest, as they say, is history. I won’t bore you now with my career

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  who isn't camera ready when they are sick, I could never risk going out ... about my woes. Most of the time not having my own room here hasn't been ... money that I didn't get Lollapalooza tickets, but that they had put me on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... underprepared—I was the only person that didn’t have tap shoes. After warm-ups, I ... swing. Because of my VGO audition, I arrived late, so I wasn’t competing

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way ... what does it mean to be WIDE?  “Wide Tim”, perhaps, isn’t just wide! I ... more times!  And that’s the story of how I still haven’t figured out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reading won’t be about why I took a gap year but, instead, what I did on it ... just one sentence, like I did just now, but I feel it still doesn’t do ... posed with the question of what I would do. One piece of media couldn’t

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  pretty uncultured when it came to music though, so I didn’t press any ... be honest, I don’t know enough music theory to articulate the ... could say.  https://open.spotify.com/album/1tChMZYXMGw9AcbxhDFtxB?si=gY5f

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  ? is it? but a second, more skeptic thought going, it can’t be, it can’t ... don’t know if i want to make large claims, i just find that it is ... enjoy seeing the convergence of language (i don’t know if that is a real

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  and hurt myself. It doesn't even seem within reach. I ask a better ... . I tell him I'll fall, and he smiles and tells me I won't. And he was ... what. But these things do matter.And you can't press redo. Without

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  have no friends? What if I hate my job? What if my roommates don't like ... just been set to panic. I'm afraid to graduate. I don't know what this ... I was four years ago and how far I've come. I couldn't have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as a rejection with prolonged pain. What I didn't know is that those 2 ... painted in my head. Your 20 year plan? scrap it. It won't help you. In late

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023