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• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  of Cambridge St. were blocked off for vendors to grill and smoke their ... Walker, so we had to haul all our stuff to Lobby 13 (location of the #4 ... of my poem in my room, so I had to walk back to EC. At EC, I realized I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on ... would be your projected MIT Commencement dates: MIT Class of 2009: Friday, June 5, 2009 MIT Class of 2010: Friday, June 4, 2010 Things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to ... Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they're Canadian ... , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... dreamed to study, they were completely supportive. Another funny thing of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my ... Middletown Township Board of Education, claiming to my mother that I, as a 12 ... to enroll in the decades-old building in the fall of 2001. But my mom

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of ... back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually ... to collapse. Probably as a result, the top half of the shelving unit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... , one of my roommates invited me into her ~vibey~ room to listen to an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a ... things. It’s humbling to remember that, when a lot of people worry or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... to hear what our topics will be. German II-Unlike any of my Course 20

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... , and trampoline. What? Of course I'm not trying to peer pressure you into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  bunch of undergraduate minions - I mean, employees - to help out with the ... easy problems, but with those out of the way now I'm going back to that ... realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... suggestions of restaurants to try and cities to visit. I even went to Batz ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  pouring rain to the Z center for dance practice, or feelings of panic and ... came to my hometown, but just happened to be in Boston during one of my ... dorm to grab a notebook when I realized I was missing one of my favorite

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... the dorm to check out the different wings - each with members of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2 ... . But you can meet the rest of us any time next year after you COME TO MIT ... one of the 170 student groups trying to recruit you for next year, come

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  during the summer to bike down the entire Western coast of the US, from ... BMX, but there are a lot of people here who like to bike. Let It Bleed ... pull a four or a five out of my ass I'd want to take physics all over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  munchkin land, a train that goes to Oz, and a giant Oz head in the middle of ... .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , since you tend to spend most of your time knocking down GIRs prior to ... you want to make sure you pass your classes, this might even be of use

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011