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• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  like an artificial race to get the most experience you can as early as ... , and there's this indirect but constant pressure for you to get some form ... software engineer because of it. I'm glad I get to work on my team, because

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  . I don't want you guys to go getting the wrong impression about me ... . Unfortunately, the Engineers lost the game, but I did get to snap some cool ... a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... want to avoid arbitrarily ranking critically acclaimed books higher based

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to ... ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  walk across Storrow Drive, you can get to Boston Common where this summer ... Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... to rival volcanic eruptions are also very exciting to see. A few

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit sporadic during my trip. I've had a chance to think about the recent thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as previously mentioned). Also, I only had ten minutes to get back to my calculus lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night ... . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... way of reminding myself that I need to start getting them too. GET TO ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat

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

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... unique. We have 10 labs, 4 midterms -- each broken down to the Core section

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , who have to get up at absurd times. left to my own devices, I would ... to get ready, dashing across campus as quickly as possible to arrive at ... with $500,000 to commission a piece of art. Students get free access to

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

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn ... another lab to get ice, rotovapped it, added aryl grignard, and began a ... Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  following: Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This ... freshmen) possibilities of your major.‚Ä® Tell us what activities hope to ... video or a written post with photos, introduce us to a part of your life

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009