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  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  It will be a while before I return to MIT. Following in the footsteps ... . Temporary as it had been, my room was a home and a safehouse. With a west ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of ... is on it. So basically, that's everyone minus newborn infants. Yay. As you can imagine, an EMT that can't handle a stretcher with someone on it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  those of you who didn't make it to the end, the epilogue reads: Footage ... calling, who prefers to remain anonymous, insists it was a "sincere ... , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great ... work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... -American teenagers in Lowell, Massachusetts (about 30 miles north of Boston, it's home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Book Fair here) My 20th birthday was pretty perfect. It started an hour before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good ... and congratulations to our new provost - Professor Chris Kaiser. You can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  instead of wielding it, and I will attempt to write the next paragraph without including the word "I," to compensate for its overuse in this one ... Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty" Here's the first puzzle we solved, see if you can figure it out. 182.2 SMOOTS On one side, it says "NCIL SACOEBBD FM TH RDC AEUEF DDQNCQL AM

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  . For the record, it also looks a little like a stealth bomber.   My ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract ... . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  filled with hundreds of other prefrosh just like you, so it'd be a shame to ... , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... miserably failed at attending all the events I had hoped to be at. While this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... -school cassette player to listen to it? :p" Relatedly, Arvind asks, "Matt, for the ... assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  oddly-shaped futon. I have simple tastes when it comes to furniture, so I ... dollar in my desk drawer and decide to start another problem set. It's 4 AM ... from clinical weirdness when it comes to sleep habits. Most of my friends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  something online you don't like and you give it to them. But we don't pay ... Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... on to discuss the "politically embodied concepts and dances originating

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• 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 / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... count the number of people who watch the webcast, it is the most attended ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are ... observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... heating up as we race towards finals, I'll do my best to blog about all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008