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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James ... : 1. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. A slim book of poems my grandma ... Man's Land by Eula Biss. A collection of essays so careful and strong I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  're getting your footing, it's not a requirement by any means. It's not a ... . You didn't get an A. You got a P. Just like _________ over there having ... a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... belong to my brother and were slipped into my box by mistake. I never know ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... was only able to find a job and housing by making lots of negative ... I struggle to balance when I'm a full-time student. By "struggle to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to ... whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  to get a feel for what different research areas are like. Get to know ... figure out why. Get to know your PI(s). You want to get your name on a ... to get an internship as a first year. It's also hard to get an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  Latin, I’m adding a third language to my database this semester (and by ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT ... phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can’t-solve-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory ... was thinking about how to diversify their class by race, income level ... fish hate themselves, get mad/offended, and have a life-long vendetta

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• 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 / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  online portion, haphazardly completing it to get a glorious score of 27 ... 've been planning to throw a small get together in Loop lounge, inviting some ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  need to find a way to understand. Freshman Taylor did not get this at ... , “What can I do today to get just a little better today than I was ... ’m going to get a little better. And eventually all of those days, all of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  with $500,000 to commission a piece of art. Students get free access to ... will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  -narrative dissociative world...by the time you get to your first kiss, you've watched so ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... don't normally do on my blog. I'd like to ask you all to do me a big ... that data, I knew it was more than worth my while to write up a short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band ... are a wind ensemble) to convince IS&T to loan out 12.9-inch i

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  derailed by the raging flame war, I ended up forgetting to pick up a cover ... ) contribute to scientific progress (FREE PHONES) by participating in a study in ... tickets to a performance of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freisch

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

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  something cool to work on after graduation. She's between getting a job and ... essay for a Russian class she's taking at Harvard. And I have to get to ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I ... ’s orientation meant (and still means) a lot to me. So, two months ago, sitting on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014