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• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles River and the bay glittered like uncut gems in the light. It took me but a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  heard something, maybe on these blogs, about the culture of a dorm being ... DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  buy 7 falafels, you get the eighth one free! How bad could that be ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid ... me? Well, I only found out about the dinner about two hours before it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  end to this task, and perhaps the goal shouldn’t be to finish it ... being the people i hang out with sometimes i feel like a sitting duck ... few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... hearing about it. regardless, everyone admires you for being super ... things done. you seek the familiar, but are also great at going with the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  content creator of color, or being disabled in the gaming space and how to ... some of these panels. Coming in to the weekend I knew it was going to be ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  -related topic under the sun. You may not be aware that this has been happening ... do with me being amazing and more to do with the fact that I know my ... (Mollie): It's okay not to be the best http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden Mac ... stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  schedule. Why: In short, I had a terrible sleep schedule in the fall. To be ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Well, are you rural? You might have heard about the STARS College ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on ... about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of ... Family Weekend. I had a 6.01 pset due Sunday night, the last part of a 6

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  , the cost of the gasoline often prevented it from being used. ~*~ If ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on certain nights, and just generally not getting enough sleep. Also, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our ... impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... the train, I took an Uber [annotation note="I could have taken the T

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... . But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night, post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling ... playing in the background had turned into five simple letters and a two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  starting to be on the radar of people I knew. But there’s a pretty clear ... ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025