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  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind ... ’s door, the room cleaning, the napping…. I could take it all for granted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  same city in the same house in Los Angeles for all of my 18 years. Life ... predicted and accepted that I would miss my family miserably for a month or so ... MIT had to offer. So I was totally unprepared for how it actually

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... , correcting for smaller damages. “—and a perfectly good reason. Well, did you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... , for fear that this exchange would repeat itself. I wanted to follow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for the few days following the wedding, I lived with my grandma in her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... college-ruled!) method for anyone else who suffers from Handwriting Deficit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  Adelaide '09 for the diagonal idea. I decided that painting the bottom half ... with this sad excuse for a palm tree: Well, I wasn't convinced that I ... discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... upperclassmen or the Admissions Office hear, for this is top-secret information ... few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  then I found the statistics! For example, out of the group of 7 countries ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn ... real-world situations. If a company were to use a smaller diameter for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... some of it is really hard. As for me, I procrastinate far too much. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  student(s) is (are) responsible for the conduct of her/his guests including ... responsible for their own conduct as well as the conduct of their guests ... applied for improvement for my 12th this year).i am an NTSE scholar.since i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... classes you take can be applied toward the degree requirements for both

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... ." Unfortunately, since we were too lazy to wait another 35 seconds for the light to ... . Just plain "WATE" is the signal for some unholy combination of the three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered ... around campus, not a stage). And not really intended for an audience ... of your character that also explains your character's goals for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t tend to leave home for college. And just coming all the way to MIT from ... you to explore other things about yourself. It makes for a richer human

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... science and ambition, for me, necessarily need to be opposed? As it turns

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  , not for more than a few weeks, a traveller passing through her old ... for a saguaro.” I looked and saw that she was right. I told her so, and ... chemistry and a spectroscopy lab under my belt, but no shop classes. Lucky for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can ... personal mailing lists for themselves and their friends, and they send

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021