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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  'll be able to concentrate that night. Instead of concentrating this ... . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... online are a good place to start. And there are plenty of research

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  forced Burton to turn off of Mass Ave, onto a road less traveled, to the ... that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• 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 ... CL, who had sped ahead of us to the summit, and began our descent ... yelling "Hola!" instead of "Adios!" Oh, well. After some to-do and a heroic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of ... 'm also TAing this semester, and of course I'm trying to plan Adam's and my ... awesome) that their plane has the lowest solar-cell-to-wing-area ratio of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... former Secretary of the Air Force. Previous guests have interesting ... Ross) * All of Me (Diana Ross) * Our Love Is Here to Stay (Diana Ross

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam ... slightly more flexible version of the Course 7 curriculum, and is designed to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  software, particularly websites. It's trying to cover a lot of ground and is ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  surprise (forcing us to contact our liaison with Friesens, our publisher, to ... night to re-Photoshop entire sections of the book after realizing that ... reason, decides to take on, even if it means losing a few hours of sleep

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  revolutionary force doing just that.   Class of 2018, I invite you to open up to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... .   Because, people are the root of all of the challenges we aim to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello ... Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  rather tricky. Try to see how many of these you can answer (without ... are uniquely set up to synthesize and test a huge range of different ... industry needs while still adhering to the fundamental goal of original

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... soaking up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of ... up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some ... admissions in general. I had actually committed to Cornell, I had done all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... collaborative filtering, a term used to describe a class of recommender systems ... month. I am so grateful for all of this.   I'd like to think MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work ... organized an apple picking trip and of course I had to go. I don’t even love ... kitchen or head down a flight of stairs to check if they’re around. I miss

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... calculations to derivate the coefficient of friction on complex surfaces and sum ... because none of us has homework to do. Aurora, the group mascot

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... the bed that its owner will be forced to get up to find it when the ... with their bags up to 500 miles on a single tank of premium unleaded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006