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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better grades Take me away, warm summer days I've got a pocket, got a pocketful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... your nametag. 2. Have a good handshake. It shouldn't be weak and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my room reading a book and my nifty-cool-non-default email sound came on

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... into a lecture hall or classroom and serenade a lucky individual. Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... a solar system, as an academic exercise. Meanwhile at home: Anyway ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I always struggled with fiction writing and long-form storytelling. Writing a news article for the school paper or a personal blog post or a school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually had several more entries partly written, but never got a chance to finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... still have a shot at MIT. Unlike Langston Hughes' poem A Dream Deferred

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last ... Street, passing Senior House (another undergrad dorm). A couple of ... get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...   armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... distribution of prime numbers. Or if you saved a penny every hour, it would take

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005