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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  . Thankfully, after a panicked email, I received money from MIT-Eurasia to fix ... ) could finally take a turn for the better. “My phone’s broken,” I said to ... to follow him down a flight of stairs. I descended into what can only

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  matters sometimes, but having someone to help prioritize makes a world of ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  . Balance = well-being. Make perspective a priority. If you're too close to ... place. "There Is No Formula" Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a formula. It's like trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  a tremendous responsibility since, well, we've never not had a dorm to ... were given a room in Maseeh as an option, in addition to Saxon Court, a ... freshmen are probably less inclined to attend events for a dorm that will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  engaging. Bonus: class participation involves a daytrip to New York City ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to ... , I'm trying to tighten my culinary grasp in order to make new and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  the drain to make you think they'd shaved a small cow. Perhaps worst of ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a ... to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where ... become what you once scoffed at. I would never be with a boy who makes me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09 ... stop trying to make jokes about 18.03.) Basically, everything in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange things happen to ... and u become afraid and need to be rescued by our tech support i.e. a ... I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it to my first class at 10:00, that's a pretty big switch. Just pointing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... . What makes me sad is when students focus on their studies to the ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech ... and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go ... already off to a rough start. (Although I guess spring break had not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... felt and continue to feel good about the exam. There was a calculation I ... about. I'm a little rusty on my art history, but I was very excited to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to make a sound, since I definitely don't look awesome when I play the ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , since you couldn’t skip a workout and promise to make it up the next day ... muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021