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• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... question above, I joked that "he wrote the book" on the subject, since we had ... said, 'hey, that's a good term for what's going on in this country.'" I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  Killian Court. (For more on graduation, check out Matt's entry as well the ... summer. Just a little plain-looking. I've been working on my UROP since November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  Cambridge. On campus, there's the Valentine's skate (ice skating is an ... -male a capella group, on their way from one serenade to another. But some ... you know that those little candy hearts with sayings on them (e.g. "Be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  . On Saturday, we started at China Pearl, then walked through Downtown ... other foods in the tandoor. On Sunday, we started at our favorite brunch ... , check out former Admissions Officer Amrys' blog entry on MIT course number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... on the road again for my Admissions World Tour 2004. Well, maybe not ... stories to tell on the road. Perhaps the best stories were provided by Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  through an announcement on the LCD screens, and sometimes it's actually ... even stayed up to watch it on television last night! (his speech was ... fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  since then I have spun countless props on fire, danced and performed with it, gotten accidental fire haircuts, and lit myself on fire (on accident and on purpose). Besides committing to MIT, joining Spinning Arts

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... lifting a big silver trophy on our home field and are the official 2023 Conference Champions! We have a saying on our team: “til’ the net breaks

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... -Webster defines hardness as “the cohesion of the particles on the surface of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their own ... elsewhere, and when my MIT waitlist decision came back, it felt more on equal ... school, I unceremoniously opened my waitlist decision on my cellphone in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... ’ll be next to these friends, if i choose this company i’ll work on these problems, if i choose this hobby i’ll spend my free time on these activities

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... ; half the songs I recognized. Many people were familiar with the band on ... -shirts with their firms printed on the front. There were artisan stalls too: t

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the stairs on the second floor and walk through the lobby. I could've waited ... enjoy the things I will see. I especially like the houses on Granite

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The ... some adventures, but on the darkest days, I miss the river. How could I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  we learned, practiced, and got feedback on throughout the semester. At ... multisquential story on a single sheet of paper, a rule I quickly exploited by ... on what the reader did, so I actually ended up drawing a directed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded ... of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  fiction. i currently have pink post-it notes stuck inside three books on my ... books i intended on finishing with me to campus (these three among them ... ."][/annotation] doodling on my bass that i bought used at the local sam-ash three months ago

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  around on the floor, filled with unnamed restlessness. Cleaning my room ... (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at ... hours a day, performing, working on the set, or being extremely ill. TBH

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  going on four years now, and yet it still surprises me when it hits. On ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To ... Chronicles and Paul Farmer's “Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019