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• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so ... students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of residents, mostly frosh, she's a new arrival at Simmons. Unlike those

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... considered liveblogging it - pictures of a near-empty terminal and all - but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  firehose-survivors was Ana Posada. Ana, a Biology major from Lawrenceville, GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  x 22 is, I'll tell you it's the dimensions of a half-sheet cake; I'm just a girl working in a bakery.) I've lived in California all my life ... . I'm no Anthony '09 and it'll take me a little longer to jot down my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... plays Mirabelle, a shy 26 year-old sales clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue, who ... and lonely apartment. One night at the Laundromat, she meets Jeremy, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner, DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post ... .e. in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Let's call this set $A$. Now, suppose we look at the "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of ... ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome ... sports, the marathon - a sport that doesn't even have a side to cheer for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better grades Take me away, warm summer days I've got a pocket, got a pocketful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... your nametag. 2. Have a good handshake. It shouldn't be weak and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005