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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  I get to think about what goes on through an increasingly tech savvy ... get to make them! But what do I actually do? I've been learning a lot ... thing -- but making all the pieces connect is new to me, so a lot of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... ), and getting ready to head off to my usual Tuesday night trivia contest ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... struggling to get the whole thing to fit together just right. All of their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  'll run all of your basic programs (including MatLab, provided for free by ... computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... , there are a few that I'd like to suggest you focus on for certain

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to experience R ... with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new ... FOR THE GLORY OF THE MOTHERSPONGE! (to the water war that is, trojan

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... need to do. Some days I'm only on the ice for 40 minutes and rushing back ... 't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my ... are scared and we aren’t sure when things are going to get back to normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  began packing to move into my new apartment, for which we've already paid ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... want to know is do people ever use registries for anything else? Because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... setting myself up for failure by promising myself full blogs about ... … Yosemite for a day, then drive over to… San Franciscoto end our trip

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... fortunate to get past the rough start and still take most of the classes I ... , these were probably one of the most helpful things for me to learn because

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to know freshmen. For my part, my first task of orientation was to build an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the ... to New York I went. But first, what exactly is the biennial? From

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... dorms, and choose a new one if you wish. After you get your final dorm ... . Disclaimer: All of these people are fictional and are being used by me to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  when MIT decided to “divest as appropriate for those portfolios to ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get ... freshman year. I was lost and disillusioned by the end, unable to see my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  , “Welcome to MITES!” The next six weeks flew by. And I don’t know exactly ... Learning and Engineering Design for what felt like forever, I decided to try ... . For our cohort, we created a game where robots had to remove tennis

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time ... Portraits by sending out countless emails; or rushing to the office late at

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  weeks pass I'll get a better feel for this place. Maybe even start to fit in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018