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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  title in High School (it's addictive) and being stripped of that title on ... Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where ... an armless Orion, and the butt and tail of Ursa Major. One star of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  collection and enter their top choices into a lottery. Over 4 years, 70% of ... pick up their art beginning on Wednesday. Any winnings not collected by Friday are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  retired and stayed at home taking care of their mother-in-law, who was in ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of ... on campus. All over student groups and living groups are hosting

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record-high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets, and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  fantastic time together on top of a mountain and on the journey we took to get ... ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire ... third floor of the East Parallel of East Campus, which is currently (and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  throats for no reason and the struggle to hold it back reminds me of home ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... Annie:((("]graduated.[/annotation] This and the influx of new faces have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  reintroduce myself and give you a slightly less abridged version of my story. My ... Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the ... in college admissions at Rowan University in my home state of New

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I ... , I just kept on working and got the grades that I earned. Whew! That ... see that I too have grown. Here are a few things I learned on my own

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  going on and under her exhortation of "you know, you should really just do ... a foldable easel and a bag of paintbrushes slung over his shoulder ... sleeping man, who had slumped over and is now sprawled out on the ground

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... horizontal piece of PVC. At the end of Rush the fraternities make bids and ... WRONG! But, when all of the guys Rush and only approximately 50% get bids

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of ... , it was like playing a video game - lots of exploring and getting lost

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of ... a department head, a dean, and on top of that, I'd often see him in ... this is a grossly-simplified view of you, perhaps I have no grasp on any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  and working for an extended period of time on the west coast almost like ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... immersion. For example, my start-up’s Slack channel and some of their variable ... another line on your résumé, a language immersion, and free travel and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... out on anything at my dorm. At home, though, I don't have that issue

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020