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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one ... party to redo all the CPW assignments and match up Jewish prefrosh with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  price of 50 € RT, with an included meal and up to three (3) beverages of ... , growing up 15 miles outside of Hershey, Pennsylvania: The Sweetest Place on ... functions when he was found, and probably got beat up at school a lot after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  . But unless he wants to own up to it, I'm going to give him the benefit ... waved away every accomplishment I ever made by chalking it up to ... thinks that, but given the way we were brought up, it's always kind of an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  waiting, like when I want the reactor to heat up from ambient temperature to ... dissolved carbon dioxide or when I need the tank to fill up, so I sometimes end up surfing the internet a little at work. One thing I found today

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... begins! 3098 applications, up ~10% from last year. Doing the math, it ... truck again.) Saturday 12/3: We begin around 9AM and pick up where we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  haven't been keeping up with blogging at all, and I'm really sorry about ... , just to wrap up a few loose ends from my last couple of entries: A lot ... in Burton-Conner, which is set up in a suite arrangement- so there's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  So I know you're all sitting at home, wondering, "Hey, what's up with ... you guys are all thinking. It's like ESP or something. OK I'll shut up ... then. Then. You look up at the board. And... Wait for it.... Wait

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... were, because 500+ people showed up. The theater holds 514, and there ... that's why I bring it up during central meetings - not because I am a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  -level classes like 18.01/18.02, 5.111/2, 3.091, or 8.01.   Stay up ... stayed up until 4 AM working on an 8.022 pset, and thought it was hilarious ... this entry might be a good way to lure people to sign up for overnights

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... was beloved by all, even though we did end up going a little MST3K on it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required ... results and panicked about the possibility that I had messed up the lottery ... . I was nervous that I messed up (maybe I was required to take a CI

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable ... meant to simulate turkey waste, which still ends up smelling pretty rank

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  's style and themes. Also, growing up only 20 minutes from Hershey, PA ... books. After running four blocks to catch up to the #1 bus, we ended up ... merchandise. H****** Coop--They had a bunch of people dressed up as Harry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  uncertainty, trying to keep my GPA up and balancing a variety of ... person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports ... winter sport. I signed up, and it was definitely fun, but I still wasn't an

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up ... lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and ... internship, I still wasn't exactly sure I would compete again. But I signed up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay ... Exeter in history bowl - not once, but twice. Wherever I may end up, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ”S IMPOSSIBLE [/annotation] ]. I never ended up running the race after that. I did ended up writing a blog about it all, though. This summer, I wanted to ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  parts.    9:38 - Wake up really late because my alarm didn’t go off ... vibrating alarm clocks to wake up. I unfortunately set mine incorrectly and did not wake up on time. Whoops. [carousel image1="116815" image2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025