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  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... 10. (I guess when you're the president, you get to ask people to take ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... -person workshops into online workshops that we can run on Zoom. We're also trying to ... track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  . The resort had a circus school, so I learned to go on the flying trapeze! The first time is absolutely terrifying...but you get used to it. I ... yellow and orange sail), I'm hoping one day I'll be good enough to go on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... from home. Thankfully, over time I learned how to manage the homesickness ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... , how to take notes on what I’m reading, how to take notes on lectures ... entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... 'm running out of time and energy to even get back up? How many more hits can I ... to get over these failures, no matter how many of them get thrown at me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  , no matter how frustrating it is! Questions To Start: How big is your ... have to compromise on something if you play your cards right. The ... issue with my group was that we had no idea how many people would able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  .001, 6.001, etc. While this can be a great way to get your feet wet in a ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home ... that they were trying to get people to think about and get involved in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  -- spots on campus 18.03 recitation (but don't date your TA until after ... about on your first date Toscanini's -- because I have a free ice cream ... has unlimited cheese samples, but Ben & Jerry's is easier to get to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... with that Facebook application yesterday, just to see how boring my ... So Facebook has this interesting application that lets you display on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... ; Environmental Engineering professor Rafael Bras on the radio talking about levees

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  : Mechanical Engineering) Where are you, Rashed? On the way to get ice cream ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... to brush up on my French in order to take a French class in the fall. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember ... , bring your notes to school, and you can take the advanced standing exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal ... I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  hot frantic kitchen where the concentrated afternoon heat fringes on ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... out to be invisible until right after everyone leaves the dinner table

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say ... to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... titled “I am not Zorn’s Lemma”, and it made this play on how you can count ... typography, or to continue the train of thought, how words are written. I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020