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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  [a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers' intro posts - don't worry, there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... and was initially super excited because a lot of my friends were living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  was before Tesla REALLY took off.  It was a Tesla Roadster and I was ... I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I ... google maps, the trek is one mile long, but it feels like a lot less

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful ... summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was ... dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  primer año a fin de analizar las calificaciones de primer año. Contexto ... con “Aprobado” o “Desaprobado”. Si obtienes una A, B o C en una clase, en tu expediente académico solo queda registrado como “A” de “Aprobado

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken laundry hamper mashed onto the cushions of a green car. (Is “green” somewhat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during the weekend along with a folder filled with papers about classes, SafeRide times, and a handy-dandy TechCash card filled with $20.12 (get it

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  this summer? Matt drafted this entry a month or so ago about summer ... school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... away and rocked our floor with eggs benedict, a frittata, fresh fruit ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are thinking about their fall schedules right now (I mean, a lot of freshmen ... be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a YouTube playlist. Somehow everyone in the comments was stringing together a coherent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  -progress for more than a century ever since L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful ... !!![/annotation]   Here's some fun Kano-lore: Wicked was my gateway musical. A decade ... . Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly, after years of not having practiced; a continuous panic to try and reduce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024