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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of ... , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I ... a week early and spent the time exploring different parts of Johanessburg. The first day I made my way to the Apartheid Museum and after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  . They posted photos of the envelopes in mail bins and I was monitoring Ben ... daily from December, all through the spring and summer, and many of us had ... of us, it was the first time we had a substantial peer group we could

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much ... a whole summer! =D During the last week of my stay in Taiwan, I went ... (often with blackouts and without cell phone reception). Most of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• 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 / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  this Saturday. The first break of the school year passed this weekend ... of a Showgirl, and after that, Taylor Swift on shuffle. The New England ... coolest person ever and leads rafts on the weekends as a change of pace from

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of ... ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... long time. Michael Hartl wrote the first version of The Tau Manifesto for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  one was my first piece of the semester, and I kept things pretty simple ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ) lecture fell prey, and, by the third week of classes, I just stopped ... Biology, I had effectively dropped off of the academic map, and my 7 ... grades were actually quite good, and I walked out of the 3-hour exam after

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  -tech training tools I was really surprised by the layers of safety and ... things.  By the end of it I was ready and anxious to actually jump out of ... awesome - I went over the jump verbally and in my head, touched all of my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... emphasis on self-respect, boundaries, patience, and most of all, the ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them ... soup, but I can never remember which. And I generally steer clear of the ... at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when ... from the the "ashes" of Ashdown and create a new vibrant generation and ... we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... game of poker. The evening featured many performances and demostrations ... folk dance) also performed, much to the delight of Pooja, Veena, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  of discussion about the role of gender roles and sexuality in pro ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  and successful than the first. Through my sorority, I have a network of ... and volunteer, each of the sororities also hosts a large philanthropy ... national regulations, including the prohibition of hazing and alcohol in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... you can" and "Oh, DON'T WORRY, we'll be cool if you just SEND ME a page ... letter at the end of this week. Best Regards Birgit Heil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... matters. I think it's a healthy and good question. It's part of the essence ... . And, wow, What Was I Made For? struck a nerve. Here are some of the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially ... periodic interjections of "We Are The Engineers" and "The Liberty Bell (Theme ... I think he deserves some credit for the whole affair. And we got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006