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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... become sophomores, a significant percentage ends up moving into FSILGs ... -effective, convenient boarding with a strong sense of community, such that people stay in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation ... college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the ... sign a book or piece of paper. Each college also hosts their own

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka, where we walked through an open-air produce market and into a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... share. 9:15AM The good news: we worked late last night and made a big dent ... schedule to mail today. The bad news: I woke up to a blizzard this morning

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  Hampshire with Joe and Joe's Dad. A picture is worth exactly one thousand ... : Nuclear Engineering. Aha! Pictures! Joe and Joe's Dad cross a ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... beside me a student from another college has a massive book open beside her ... minutes, a shadow crosses the window, cast by a pedestrian or two walking by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... at a close. But it happened. And Ring Delivery was this past friday ... gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze ... straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... . Ceri: "i only used [spotify] when i went for a few outdoor runs this year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer-Prize novel with a few keystrokes. As somebody who has spent many years

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022