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  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at ... they consider each other's and vote on them, and the top 10 are given to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  Kung Fu Tea, and then walked back to our respective dorms; on the way, I ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  really only showed up to take pictures, but I made the mistake of going on ... for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep ... about tolerance here! Just wanted to point out that contrary to what the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the ... Concert, the Kent State massacre occurred. On the same day, according to The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... terribly scary thing to plant in the mind...Because we tend to act on it. So every Thursday and Friday this summer, I hop on a bus to work at WGBH, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim ... ; to the contrary, it is filled to the brim with creativity, as Chris

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  you are already) and, on the flip side, making time in your busy life to ... me the hardest questions about friendship on tumblr, when it comes to ... create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Putnam, it's no surprise that the top performers on the IMO go on to ... -based college math competition held on the first Saturday of December. The ... 120. Individuals are ranked based on their raw scores, and the five (or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  stage to tell us about some of the environmental programs on campus. ESI ... .” -a sophomore on the Trashion committee “It was all trash! Beautiful ... collection. On Friday night, models walked the runway with their were judged by

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... beautiful, as was the trip to the old Montreal. Here are some pictures of old ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest ... in his lectures to illustrate the points as he's making them. On

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'm going to touch on, and I really hope the words that follow are more than ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to ... accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... to the online CPW schedule entry There are going to be 8 really

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments, classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  . We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... attached to you, and not just for what you'd bring to the MIT community, but ... , then we (the admissions officers) choose whom to admit, but the final

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006