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  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... ? > 3 - Who says the most words on average? 0 - Overview of Part I ... calculated the number of words that a character spoke on average by dividing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... around. During CPW, I was just as lost on the MIT campus as they were. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... entire series of books on, and it’s not over yet. The main storyline is ... I can move on to the next chapter of my life and start addressing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... number of fashions. First, on a day to day basis, athletes have fewer hours

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  live on Burton 2, known primarily for being right below the Burton Third Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... choices into a lottery. Over 4 years, 80% of students should "win" at least

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  everything about MIT. So I hit on the central themes of MIT's culture, the ... On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  world poises on the brink of possible war. Since the very early ... of my remaining credits on history classes, why not make them count for ... we’ve learned together for hours on end (the various debaucheries of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  , there should be very little heavy stuff on the back of the foot. you ... heavy stuff on the back of the foot you may need to make each step smaller ... to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  read my book (Giving, by Bill Clinton) on the roof of Baker, take ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having ... - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  About one million Americans have a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges ... dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004