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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  does it mean?!When I first got my grub (on Wednesday-ish of that week), I ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  best experiences involved plenty of exploration. On Friday, many prefrosh ... blogger Sam, and at the awesome Battle of the Bands event on the last night ... experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  strength, but rather on flexible response and the use of an attacker's own ... . The description of the game on our website is... "After tens of ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  one of our papers, with feedback on the draft from the teaching staff ... the drop ceiling. And even though most of them live on the same hall ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  the floors' layouts? Then, on internet connection. Does MacGregor have ... has, but on the page about MacGregor housing there is only wired ... floorplans for MIT buildings, but I think it's only accessible on campus. I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  up on this week's episode of Beauty and the Geek. SATURDAY Saturday ... number of people to enjoy the concert celebrating America. On July 4th ... Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on their ... , Substance Abuse] "That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  , Merritt Tierce Killing Rage, bell hooks Meditations on the Future of Food ... , and I have not fixed my sights on any palace of wisdom. I am not sure ... Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  West Tower) consists of a mixture of singles, doubles, and triples. On ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school years, I have experienced a fair share of field trips, including a couple

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  phrases on five slips of paper. Fold up these pieces of paper, stick all of ... and start drawing slips of paper and acting out the phrases on them. The ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  of Breonna Taylor on my newsfeed, in an effort to preserve my mental ... , that weight of injustice crushed down on me, and I watched those people ... the bare minimum of what’s on my to-do list, and I’m not even trying to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... Here's the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... from last weekend (1-10 units of bragging rights per 16 oz., depending on ... decided to stick to just restaurants on the Cambridge side of the river

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  would be overhauling every aspect of my current life. On one hand, the idea of attending MIT was ridiculously exciting. But on the other hand, I ... -punching pain of separation that I was banking on. I’ve found that being away

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor ... 're wondering, is definitely one of the harder classes on the Harvard spectrum ... sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  yentls" and "making fun of other people on camera". I mean, what better way ... eavesdropping on conversations, I noticed that most of the discussion back in this ... of geography majors on The Amazing Race 12, you'll know where they came

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  out of the car in the rain and climbed on a yellow school bus, which ... and turned the heat on full (it worked amazingly well.) Both of our ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... of the biggest classrooms on campus, 26-100, and the set was going to ... of pressure on herself to succeed. She sings “Breathe” as a way to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  . Biking across the country, an endeavor one of the other people on the trip ... Francisco for the summer. After talking to a number of groups working on ed ... " to education on just a couple of schools or just a couple of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013