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  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  , don't feel the need to force yourself to enjoy it. CPW is a great time ... all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to write to all of you who will be coming to visit very soon. You might be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  itinerary — forces you to think about your own desires rather than what your ... for some imaginary audience forced me to confront why i cared about the ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The ... to keep out the wind and rain but be permeable to radio waves. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  , officially. To quote their website: "Throughout the year students may also come ... Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole years ago, but it's super awesome and while it's hard to exactly explain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... awesome that MIT allows you to do whatever you like to your room. I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  link to the CleVR website for you to see what the crowd enjoyed so much. ... Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pod shuffle, and since she already owns an iPod, she decided to bestow it upon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  carry 40-pound boxes of food from mass ave to building 13 every day. every ... that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in ... and care involved in delivering every bite of food to your doorstep

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  of high school. College forced me to take care of myself when I fucked ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  like 8 hours last weekend searching for a job. I eventually had to force ... to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009