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Blog / Academics & Research
The Craziest of Weeks I had one.
formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the Institute. Four years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking -
Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the -
Blog / Uncategorized
Things in My MIT Household that just make sense
own complex work station set up for his work. Some of the technology ... 've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things -
Blog / Academics & Research
Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact
(#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur Every time I go to one of these events, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students
invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.
of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the excitement last year: a few members of MIT's Musical Theatre Guild decided that -
Blog / IAP
Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences
science, technology, debate, and thinking-out-of-the-box in general. Twenty ... is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... could process. While one always needs a certain level of conscious -
Blog / Events
Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning
Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th ... Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities -
Blog / Events
Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.
to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance -
Blog / Academics & Research
The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.
longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was -
Blog / Challenges
A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.
anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns -
Blog / How to Human
play dough
Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my -
Blog / Events
The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…
semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot -
Blog / Personal Travel
Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT
After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!
offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your -
Blog / Miscellaneous
You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West
world just because of the head start we have in terms of technology and ... unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and -
Blog / IAP
GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget
"]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went -
Blog / Featured Blogs
A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle
this institution if the beaver wedding was my first impression of MIT ... audience was shedding tears of joy and cheering as Bernoulli pulled Tim into ... no the dog 10:57 Exchange of rings 11:35 Petey declares them beaver -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
craze how a blog gets born
every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... gremlin takes over do any of those ideas make it out all creative ... of ideas in another life, I could have been a painter (I