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  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... , Quentin and Kallie! At today's meeting of the faculty, it was proposed ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... 't come easily, and for much of the semester, I was running on adrenaline ... this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us ... losing sleep right now." When I arrived, a group of students, adults, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  keep a postcard from home in my pocket it has sunshine and a picture of a ... Classes are over in a matter of time Pandora's on and you're by my side ... Spotify's on and you're by my side Feels something like summertime

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects ... ) Asian and Asian Diaspora Studies major, half out of longstanding curiosity ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... with a nice Nikon DSLR, and we drove around LA with the intention of ... Cormick art gallery. One of the shots got into the exhibit, and it was featured

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  ). These comics don't have any special meaning to me, but head on over and ... ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that ... , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  the rigors of the MIT curriculum, living away from home, and making new ... . Personally, I didn't take any of these advanced courses, and I felt it WAS the ... are), but rather I'll base everything on my own personal opinions and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  of the arts scholars on the trip had, and gave us a synopsis during the ... through events and mentorship.  During the first weekend of the semester ... ’s Gotterdammerung (!!!) and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Because many of us hadn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... reflect on whether MIT was the right fit for me, and why. And maybe it ... have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one-of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to ... , and go to bed in the morning. At the start of the year, two friends came ... I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  presentation on Friday, and I generally felt okay at the end of the week. I ... Friday, and, for the most part, I did a lot of nothing. eight days ago On ... the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I

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

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground, we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get ... didn't get any photos, so here are two pictures of my coworker's swing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... Microsoft table and chat with representative. The last subitem on the list ... the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  their interests and have a wider range of interests (both in any one ... Ask MIT students what they like about MIT, and many of them will say ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  currently broken) I slapped my palms on either side of my mat and began ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012