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  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about ... and immensely bloggable. Now that we've sipped through autumn down to ... day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  When I went online to start typing up this post, I noticed an ... writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... ago who claimed to be from München. So he will probably comment again ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  toilet.  My dad kneeled behind me, pressing his hands to my stomach to add ... distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something through writing alone. To all seniors: wow. I empathize with you a ton. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... are only relevant to my first semester. I'm going through them now (3/16/2020) to see if there's anything I should remove or add :) MIT has been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad ... Christmas and it's okay to listen to Christmas music again, and SPOTIFY ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and ... consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then ... . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a ... happening to OTHER people, but no, it truly got to me. Now I’m feeling good

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2 ... recitation. For the week I’ve decided to share, we were using angular momentum

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024