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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  kids, and you'd be surprised how often the argument, "It could save his/her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  . Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ... on that later. But first, a State of the Institvte address. The school ... stairs and cramming into the humid, moist basement of Next House is too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts ... without its teams, and so, the tangled maze of Simmons Hall floors split up ... contests were held, points tallied, and glory awarded with the blow of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  On November 22, 1995, the first Toy Story was released, becoming the ...  installation appeared on the bridge between buildings 56 and 18. For three days, it ... some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we ... . It also reminds me of the first time I actually met Snively, where his ... guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I ... the best! And shoutout to you too for reading my first blog post! I ... a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  out of the bay. Too bad it didn't move. It whimpered feebly and then ... three of us returned to the ambulance bay, got out of the ambulance, and ... When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  exhilarating. We run each piece over and over, first learning the rhythms and ... , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... . When I finish making my dinner, and I finally get to take the first bite

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  glimpse of artists in action on one of my first days wandering around the ... FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick-off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... district of boston, and I'd only been down to chinatown and the downtown ... 's about 4 and out come the cardboard boxes and the cats are just having a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  and sleep, but gained the priceless skill of taking naps anytime (#1, 4 ... answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... hullabaloo was finally over at Next House, and all the first-year students had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  scenario. And then right of the bat, we faced our first contender: the ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and ... cause of failures and redesign the part, but rather outline how the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  quad and kind of had the reputation as “the quiet one.” I would generally ... ” with the sass of a 30-year-old hair salon stylist. Lizz and I have been ... President, Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation, and Chancellor

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  the first bit of flea shampoo. And a flea collar and some "Revolution ... them (black one's a boy and the other's a girl), gotten the first of ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  break after handing in a copy of my master’s thesis. The first day I was ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... first application of bleach to not touch the lightened section, but I got

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018