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  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  on your way back to the lounge, amazing opera floats out the door ... stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the ... table" What's that? You're dying to meet the people I live with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  . Basically, I want to go home. And I never plan on going to a hospital ever ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  Gave It Back to Me on Tuesday)”. You guessed it: MIT just dumped its ... swift hours, you're blissfully free to cruise along, guarded from the edge ... the issue: If you're a freshman here, you are most likely accustomed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... local explanation is this (from Tumblr): You may be wondering how to use ... secretious (for a very negative scretious). Feel free to invent your own (and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  back on my bike and headed to the Navy ROTC building. During IAP, I am working on a project to improve battalion communications through the ... . During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  given the green light to take a boat out on the water. Once we started to ... than I had expected. That first day on the river we rowed up to Harvard ... effectiveness of your teammates. I’ve found it’s a lot easier to put in my best

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  on my pre-registration. I only need to take three classes–biology, a ... enough time to calmly get [annotation note= "I spent the last week of IAP ... the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  : students get many opportunities to donate blood on campus. Seen from the ... Flag Campaign to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our ... facility and my PE destination. The Z Center also home to major on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... have to be 18 for that…). Any ideas welcome ^_^. Back on topic, the bike

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... students arrive on the day of the competition, they will be assigned to small ... engineering, Beaverdash is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... . She began working on two projects: studying how neurons communicate with ... mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben ... to my Valentine who will get her Valentine's day kiss when I'm no ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... breaks into more than two pieces. «Impact of Wet Underwear on ... underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort of humans during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight ... you like to see your scores?" There were two options, "View Scores" and ... & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to ... finally, thank you to everyone who applied. It was a privilege to read your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... condensed-semester IAP language courses on campus (German I takes you to ... complete sentences rolling off your tongue, and soon, you're starting to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... moving on to the next song when one of the music directors of [annotation ... senior who taught me how to prepare a turkey and run a kitchen for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022