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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  , lightbulbs, and cleaning supplies under the sink. I thought we'd be done moving ... you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... . (Mostly there are helpful upperclassmen around to help you move. But I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever ... : A toughie, but I managed to answer most of the problems =) If you'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received ... Housemasters and house government, I have arranged for free massages for Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I ... calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the phone so I could say, "Could you patch me through to the blimp

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  As I told you in my last entry, my mother has become concerned about my life here at MIT. I mentioned awhile ago that by now, basically my ... that I'm doing so many awesome things, like watching April paint the room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin ... components. While I've been gone, what have I missed? Any excitement? What was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  record, I can't believe what an incredible group of people you are, both academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have guessed was that the first CPW I’d spend as an actual student would be ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  Today I flew back to campus! I returned earlier that most students because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and ... classes, but it doesn't become real until after the first midterms. I have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... the trip; I have some plans for the layover at Union Station, but we’ll see exactly what the time looks like. I slept surprisingly well last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms ... drop your own techniques in the comments :)   Reading oh man, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new ... seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense ... "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a change that warrants its own post--basically, i feel increasingly like i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen ... came back, and I wished city sounds would drown out their mating snaps

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017