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  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to my baby. Usually, by 5 pm, there's a loaf on the table and that ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant ... familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger ... doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... refreshing to read a few posts from alumni who are now over 15 years from when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... —there were too many clouds to have a long enough viewing window to appreciate ... or not to take a picture of it. Tuesday I sleep through breakfast. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to ... since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but ... miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  hairline fractures that race across your windshield when it gets struck by a ... smashed to bits by a thousand avoidable pebbles and my mind and body aching ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... , though, because I'm not really getting to the heart of the issue. Spaghetti

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  , it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn ... was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... ), events I'm looking forward to, and other appointments. Getting this birds

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has ... speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... , because as soon as you get assigned to a table group, you’ll get a shot soon ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... by the time the alarm declares that it’s 9AM on a chilly Friday morning ... to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  -around excellent student. "It took a lot of extra work to get to this point ... underclassmen wanting to apply at a top university is to get involved in high ... as a result of the recent publicity he has already started to get calls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006