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  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
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... -- but also shows off and helps fund student projects. a day at the fair I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this picture, and there's a good chance that you'll find yourself*: *This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  a massive sudoku grid. The motivational speaker Michael Fauntleroy ... coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only sign a simple contract with some unreadable fine print. After nearly all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  "...albeit a very useful one." --Albert Einstein I think I found the ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  a lot from each other. The MIT Admissions bloggers are but a small ... .   January 2015 East Campus, A Home by Dannie B.D. '15 Merit by ... Hilbert's Third Problem (A Story of Threes) by Lydia K. '14 IHTFP - A

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015