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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first-semester senior with two classes and a swim test* left between her and graduation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a sophomore, IAP means only one thing: 2.670, a class called "Mechanical

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes ... December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar ... 2007. In 2005, Alia founded a nonprofit business, Emerge Global, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze ... straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... , 2008 Right after school ended, I hopped on a plane and embarked again on ... leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... 's a lot of controversy surrounding minority programs and special months ... involving free food of some sort. And if you attend ten, you are entered in a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing a ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way ... that I found a little odd: "Yearbook from high school as a conversation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle Solver: Radia Perlman's determination helped make Web surfing a reality ... Barlas Radia Perlman had a solution for an information routing problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice ... , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  Well, I've been sleeping a lot. I don't really understand why, during term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... Kentucky or Georgia it wants three decent-sized meals a day, at regular

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... ,” while others mandate that students have a meal plan. Some allow students ... social dynamics within a living space shape how students interact with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  had a massive potluck Thanksgiving dinner with our housemaster Nina and ... (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... "] i still can't believe i was actually given a platform for my garbage ... drawing properly using a trackpad. Anyways, art is very very critical to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email ... completing a single round. Instead, I watched the trees whisk by as I defended

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  [annotation note="Graduate Resident Advisor, a grad student who provides support to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 (architecture). “How do you perceive pika?” someone asked. “It’s a little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... . Ceri: "i only used [spotify] when i went for a few outdoor runs this year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  summer, I interned at a lunar exploration company called ispace. They are a ... , Mission 1, may have unfortunately [annotation note="This is a very nice word ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note="A

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023