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• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... Ace of Base on?" I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS STUFF. ... I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular ... ’t heard of him he’s responsible for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars ... Bringer of Jollity) we watched beautiful images of aurorae on Jupiter and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product ... blissfully unaware of Bevi’s existence, prepare to have your day ruined as I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my ... It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of ... find their home on campus, and East Campus goes all out in hopes of ... tongue in cheek) phrase that's featured on many EC REX shirts in years past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... because our hostel doesn't serve breakfast on Sundays and apparently neither do any restaurants. We broke our fast with potato chips and a chocolate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  , those are real tests on each of our desks) (answers passed out ... you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... day. Events had unravelled very quickly; we found out on Tuesday that ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave ... words "critical point." This reminded me of something. While many are now completely done with their year at MIT, there are still hundreds of students

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  flake at the beginning of this post) There's a list of featured ... 's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... "Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems." This class is hard on me not because the ... amounts of time. Since some people did well on the exam, their exam scores

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  , watched some episodes of Law and Order: SVU (yes, on a Saturday night. Shut ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on ... survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that ... calculus class with the same level of mastery as Etta. In fact, on the same ... One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  energy on campus from Day One. I want to share my experience of being an ... students are invited on campus earlier than the rest of the incoming class. During the first week on campus, MIT organizes a lot of activities to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole ... focus on the good parts, because there are lots of those too. I can tell

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  campus photos, these shots featured brass rats on ring fingers:  [caption ... In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  ! (Come on, how unprepared can you get?) It turns out that three of us ... saw these two posters on the wall of a bathroom: (And then a girl ... taking a picture of a poster on a bathroom wall, which is exactly what I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008