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• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4 ... compositions for Monday 11. Laundry, laundry, laundry 12. Go to New York and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... 'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... , that I've decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... around three months trying to replicate the experimental results of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... restauarant Mitra introduced me to. There, they'd be talking about the new ... they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived, the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or ... things and merely accepted them. back then i’d told myself that you had to brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I ... project is to make a music [annotation note="i'm probably going to join a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus from Logan Airport to MIT all day Thursday, and back from MIT to Logan on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... 3rd, 2023 location: South Station, Boston, MA currently listening to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality." John

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016