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  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... (except when Labor Day is September 6th or 7th) to be determined annually by ... students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  hosted a community picnic to celebrate The Howard Dining Hall, which is on ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... of the Patriots Monday Night Football game by myself this week). But my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... trampolines, and the wind was trying to eat us. It felt so very college :D I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... watch the fluorescent lights but not to actually go inside because tickets

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

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of ... paraphrase Martin Scorcese when he lost the academy award to Three 6 Mafia, "We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  we were impatient to explore Quito's Old Town. Quito is the capital of ... later that the hike up to Jesus is infamous for robberies. Thank you, stranger! By this point, it was raining, so I suggested that we go to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , which I honestly don't have the bandwidth to think about, and REX is going ... boundaries, everything, everywhere, all at once (great movie by the way), and ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the ... . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early ... sleep so well? You keep telling me to live rightTo go to bed before the ... gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... , course 9 by itself is just awesome, so I don't expect this goal to be too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  with those people along the way. 2 - MIT is really good at surprising ... there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... the reasons i originally chose to come to MIT. MIT has changed me so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the ... After a seven-ish month renovation, the new Varsity Weight Room is ... MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just ... past year I've been comforted by the fact that Boston is beautiful and I ... get some downtime to fully reflect on the halfway mark of my undergrad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  "] the bar at the top is a spectrum from light to dark we were asked to ... 'd like to see it, it's here. This is the finished portrait: [caption id ... " align="aligncenter" width="225"] the pose is inspired by Michelangelo

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

   Instagram now. The account is curated primarily by my colleague Holly, who will be ... purpose of this list is to just let you know where else they are on the web ... Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official ... look forward to hearing music all over campus, at all hours of the day

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005