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• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  precious to me.  To be honest, my hair has always been a source of pride. Or ... . That sounds a bit melodramatic, but it used to feel true. I actually still have a lot of trouble with this. Every few weeks, I force myself to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  confused by the concept of a different kind of OS that they always stick to ... ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... having a chance to say goodbye, another person I would never again bump ... nearby. As "MIT's newest alumni" (a term I did not want to contemplate too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  times per year, a swap meet-style event takes place where you can get all ... machine suitable for a server, with delivery to my dorm, for a mere $10 ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... ," which I think is a much better expression. Now I can just switch to ... need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  things instead, trying to make a portfolio that would get me into a concept ... Processing! Or Blender! Computer graphics is also a really good field to get ... bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... : This video of Cho Gue-Sung getting a little [annotation note="Imagine me ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the ... recognize them as the closing act). I never ceased to be amazed by these guys

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT ... any dance background, as evidenced by this video of us learning to dance ... and stayed out until sun up dancing to mbalax music - a type of modern

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... .022 test!” Not one to back down from a challenge, I enthusiastically insist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... cartridges). MIT is the perfect place to start a puzzle, especially when there ... was able to write autobiographically in a completely different ways, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my ... to judge if you're convinced or not :P I will start by saying that I am ... access to a Costco: it's pretty far away, and although an MIT shuttle does

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015