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  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT's temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to ... idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go ... is missing, we notice. Somehow, the emptiness is jarringly loud. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ? Pull yourself out from under that rock. I'm not talking about that silly little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ", otherwise known as "Physics I: Mechanics" (Masochists, Mechanics...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... out. My desk remained empty. I raised my hand. A proctor yelled "BEGIN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think I probably haven't looked this uncool since my fouth-grade days of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I'd like to ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  Hey, everyone. I've been hosed (I know, I know, tell me something</> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them as junk. Try to leave comments NOW.), so I haven't been around. But I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab ... ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather ... together. 8:10am: I drop off the CPW Festival programs at CopyTech (the ... . 8:25am: CPW Registration opens; I take my post at the Help Desk. 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  [by Gilad Evrony '07] I think it was around junior year that it ... were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then I got waylaid. I forget where I was going with that, but I think it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings, so I headed out to Park City to see the Olympic site, and up to Temple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to the airport or T station or whatever. But I'm not that cool. Luckily, he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006