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  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on ... says sleep isn't on your list of things you did over CPW either. Am I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  Admissions Decisions 1. Dream about getting into colleges that don't exist ... much fun as it is being pompous and loathed by everybody, just don't do it. Nobody likes that guy. You don't want to be that guy, do you?) 4

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you ... I say, "Well, even if you don't like all the architecture at MIT, at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  Keri Russell stars. It's something with those ladies from the WB, isn't ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn't ... thing I didn't get a super burrito, since after paying for the regular

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First ... -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  pick me up at the airport. The message said, "I don't know if you know this, but your flight has been cancelled." I didn't want to believe it ... book Are You My Mother. There were no more flights, but I didn't give up

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  mosquitoes on land, but they didn't bother us when we were in the water. For obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn't ... 'm starting to get the hang of this photography thing. Life isn't nearly as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  , first of all, the T only runs until about 12:30, so without any way of ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though everything below my waist was just a little bit nippy. But actually, I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  , mit_hopefulgirl, is MIT doesn't send these "likely letters." One reason why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process ... summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  ? To be sincere,  I didn't think I'd make it near. My twenty second ... you. Can't run away from that too. Wherever you run, there's always ... of a saying but I couldn't quite remember. I thought it went "If you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  MIT doesn't make me feel the academic imposter syndrome everyone ... [annotation note="While I do think MIT has its unique pressures, I don't think ... [/annotation] create an inescapable mindset that if I don't take all of them, I am not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  thrifting. i don’t really know what that means. maybe it just means you look good in red. yeah, maybe. some change would be nice, though. i don't know ... your classes this semester, don't you? yeah, they're fun. you know when

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  hard it is to write good blog posts. Thankfully, you don't actually have ... philosophy. Doesn't matter if it's unrelated; no one's gonna read the lyrics ... 're worried about coherence, remember that many respected plays don't make any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  wouldn’t really count this as a conversation, but it certainly is small ... small talk mode. We don’t have to have a deep conversation about math, but ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You ... life!! No -- stop, this doesn't mean you get to quit school since you ... -- you'll thank me in 2016 :) So what was I going to say? Oh, you don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . They told you that you could do anything. They forgot to add that you can't ... that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... my hometown of Los Angeles. It wasn't bad. Taking four classes was just

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... have it explained in 5 minutes. But the supervisor doesn't usually stop ... simple motto, there is no theorem, lemma or concept that isn't better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  people, and other people may confide in you. But don't confide in other ... regular somewhere. It doesn't matter if it's a deli, or a barber, or a bike ... are all the same. They aren't done for their own sake. They are done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  out. (note: turns out that's impossible, you can't fit 100 dimples with ... has abruptly shifted into high gear. Don't let that freak you out though ... flash and java. Back in the day we didn't have all the bells and whistles

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008