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  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  : (Neerja and I didn't enjoy one of the activities that much at first) We bonded like crazy and ended up having the best times of our lives :) So FUP was tons of fun and one of the best experiences ever!! I love

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... that do not exist... irregardless of how much you orientate the direction

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  first sociology class, which opened my mind beyond the issues of my rather ... begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... me, I'm excited. Before I could reap the joys of summer, though, I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  understands the power of good research institutions--which are first made by ... challenges of this first iteration. After the long, crazy process of starting ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this ... just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  several pounds of fruit. We decided to work on the fruit salad first. I can ... to see what kind of deals we could find. Trekking down the Infinite ... a room on the second floor of Building Four where they were casting

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  the walls. In order that the descendants of those first "Founders ... Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... attend, your next mailing ("The Next Big Mailing") has all of the awesome

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  generations. For a few weeks, the first, larger set of hens acted aggressively ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... ’re flexible! Anyway, when I first met with the coordinator for the program, she ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to ... records in central square has a few cases of $1 records at the entrance, but ... binder full of cds and dvds and a player that would strap to the passenger

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025