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  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to ... head and roll some blocks of ice down the hall! because it's not the ice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  : Weekends at MIT are like the soft, cushiony slices of whole-grain bread ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  the mystique of the whole thing if you don't know that the kid sitting ... name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... all of Thanksgiving with these three; I'm going to exhaust the gloating ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... - considering I probably spent upwards of several weeks over the last three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  on MIT faculty pages. Nisha D. hails from Petey’s neck of the woods ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 ... who, for the first time in the history of the blogs, will be TWIN

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... , made first contact with aliens, signed peace treaties and saved the world

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  , the softness of your sweater. The whole experience is intoxicating. The ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning and I shall have no end: the beam of light stretches out before and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of ... , making them more interesting and adaptable. Can't the same be true of life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... issues with pages 5 and 7..." a German in the same situation might say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia ... home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer. Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... judging from the radio play of "The Lazy Song," "Last Friday Night" and ... them perform live three times in three different cities in the span of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm ... last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am ... paper kind, not the computer kind), just because of the Prime membership

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  first is the number of times the game has been played, which affects the ... of the dinner branch exchanges. First is about YouTube: "Honestly, too ... , even though it may seem that way at first. The use of "you" through the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... , one bake sale at a time. Our first bake of the semester is probably ... see what the other two are like. Best of all, I am finally free of 9ams

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020