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  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates ... settled in to wait for the show. It's 8:00 PM at this point. The lighting ... So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  you to join us here at MIT. For those of you who haven’t made a ... When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  ) takes the proverbial cake for hopscotching around my criteria for likable ... history who learned the Li√©nard–Wiechert formulation of potentials for a ... set for that particular week was far more bipolar than dipolar: one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  a penchant for closing on you at exactly the wrong time. CJ: If you trapped the minotaur in Stata, it’d take at least six months for Facilities ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  question posed by someone over at CC: "I am applying to MIT for the second ... I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  how he tried waving at Danny, and thought I was rude (for not waving ... interactions for a secret to be kept that long or even at all. 6) Studying by ... at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... and eating bags of black tea at my final exams. For about a month after ... sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  online, homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8 ... 'll give credit for the questions that we at least answered!! *frantically ... powers at be have begun to realize that nothing swells the ego of an MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  on my end. I should be setting at least six months aside for studying ... reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... naive attempt at a very raw and honest reflection on the past year +/- a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... meandered for a while and at about 2:15 we headed back to the Elmer booth ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  for myself this year, so I jumped at the opportunity to make my own ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  had some really, really awesome repertoire planned for last spring, and ... lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  can schedule an appointment for a shot at MIT Medical by calling their ... Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT ... for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I ... cannot speak for other schools. It is entirely possible that many sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... schedule kicked in. I had decided at one point that it was a brilliant idea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016