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  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  challenge here is deciding what to do with it. I learned during my first year ... compared to the happiness you give up to achieve it. This is where it stops being worth it. I’ve come to understand that the things I want to do are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around ... this hammock thing was, but it was fun to try to crawl around in ... , MacGregor, it's Entry Rush). 5th East now has nine new freshmen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let ... from? Anthropology can help identify new, people-centered approaches to ... conclusion: SHASS is awesome and you should come to MIT and study (in) it!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before ... freshman to Montana, Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  waving sparklers (thankfully, this hasn't found its way to YouTube). I was ... it is bright and open, and airy and, if you try you can convince ... . And when the weather turns to *#%& as it did without warning on

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... secondary to the Institute's long-ranging goals, but I find that nothing can ... , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  want it to be with my lute. Vieni, let's go to my performance first. Afterwards, let's go to Luigi's and you can paint me there. Make it a good one ... students seem to be inclined to say =p) Results: It has been shown that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  to the Z Center with nothing to show for it, I headed up Mass Ave to ... .) It's important to keep in mind the loud harmony of Tim's pipe as ... (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated ... * This is where, as much as I hate to admit it, Uber delivery came to save ... to look at the picture. And then it was 3:00 am, and the puzzle wasn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  wonderful it would be to wear it alongside my green studs. A little green ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He ... my spine. Another deep breath. And it was done. Greg explained how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss ... . Like, I can enjoy it, but I do it more for the end than the means. Given ... build a really cool fort, but it's sad to see much of our work be brushed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  comically improbable possibilities? Can I just take a moment here to marvel ... laughed and clapped like it was adaptively beneficial to be the loudest ones ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it ... similar to her other stories, but it was still insightful, entertaining, and ... consequently her books include countless references to Boston, including MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... can be harder to figure out what you might be doing only a few years out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  the time i actually left to the bus stop, it was about 6:14. i pretty much ran/speed walked the whole way to the bus stop, and actually made it ... got there. quest: completed. LOADING LEVEL: i made it to the office

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include ... somewhere. It’s definitely very difficult to include outer space themed film

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  can be discharged into any portable device later. What better way to ... hat to be a pre-show hit! So hold on Tim Gun, it looks like you are ... of all that it's about time to start juggling psets and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for ... it would be my last chance to carol with many of them (including Davie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... direct sunlight. The day becomes dark and you can see the stars. Some ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017