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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... 'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  do again. John Waters is a pleasant guy. ... . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  to try to Crowdfund season 3. After a few weeks of doing just that ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... Top Crowdfunds $1m+ A few months back I discovered the Geek And Sundry Youtube

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  far away.  That is, it is about a mile and a half down Massachusetts Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  forth. I never used to have to do this. When I was a kid, I was the king ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed ... homes. The game was conceived almost a year ago, when Admissions held a mini- GameJam during the 2010 IAP. We more or less locked a half

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize ... like a super hero's day name? Kind of like Clark Kent by day Superman by night. For the MIT people, Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman........ Just my

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  , but if you choose MIT (and you should =P), do consider being a part of ... wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  things students can do and has had a UROP in the MIT Center for Space ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor planet (a.k.a. an asteroid, but minor planet sounds substantially more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  "]wonderful floor chairs[/annotation]had the idea to do a C4 floor trip to Maine over ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn[annotation note="A goal that was quickly cut short because I got sick :("]by

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the ... taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  to do since I spent a week there through a program I was involved with ... rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  neither class got a chance to in the past. My class never got to do a hack ... supports. Then, we needed to do a ton of soldering. So much damn soldering ... do a sound check and meet with space coordinators to check-in about the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with ... doing a wide variety of projects involving combining art and technology in ... actually do in a firehose eruption? Some would drink from it; others would

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  do their thing.  Conveniently, just as IAP ended, a pipe burst (or ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... responded, "Hard to say because I have so many flaws." That's a self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  do enough. But think of it this way: you’re here for a reason. Find ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  $500,000 and a ton of faculty sponsors to actually do it) There's been ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014