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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  what may or may not actually be a PES diagram onto the test. Writing the ... have not yet actually had to resort to this, but that's the spirit! My ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test ... , which gives "MIT students the opportunity to learn about ways that they ... offerings related to International Development. The Fair is also the flagship

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... involved. We upperclassmen forget sometimes that it's not crystal-clear to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  typically the biggest travel days in the U.S. Why? Because that day (today ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with ... cooked meals centered around a turkey, football (the American kind, not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... admitted to MIT; we said "not only can she do the work, but she's going to have fun, she'll add to the campus community, she'll be able to make

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?" World leaders will watch and offer video responses to the highest-rated videos. The ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... the high-voltage work in lab. Thus, I have no choice but to go to lab

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2 ... the motor they had chosen was too weak. They would never be able to push ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  ’ve learned the material well enough, I don’t really care what my grades will be ... you should try not to get too trapped in the bubble, so that you can ... got to stop comparing each other. Be it the number of hours we didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that ... 't know why it took me so long to go see the Red Sox play. I actually sort ... , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and ... first female engineer to appear WIRED’s cover (as well as the first female ... ). Ladyada owns. She's credited by many with being responsible for driving the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... , before she even knew she'd be able to use the R&D pub. for the first ... response to the performance, and many wouldn't find it to be palatable or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Mccormick events have volunteers working to facilitate the fun -- interact ... ’s not always like our REX/CPW events (although residents will find several of our events very familiar…).   Time to stop with the boring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  Ina doesn't want to be cooking while the party's going on, so she gives ... . No, not really. Anyway, we decided to head over at 1:00 PM for the 4 ... not just the set of rules Crate and Barrel established to sell the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  will be looking for applicants for its planning board in the fall. If you want to be part of the team that makes it all happen, keep an eye out ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  be. 3-3:30 I had an advising appointment with the Director of Sloan to ... [annotation note="not gonna lie i pondered just...inserting all the ... 'm trying to prepare him for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine ... simulated instead of real life. Bryan !like dissection. Needless to say, the project was still a lot of work. We had to collect a lot of data, plot the

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  quickly. I had tried to be careful not to make the same mistake as the year ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... . Unlike the past three IAPs, I would not be taking on too much, doing an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was ... , unfortunately, fell very ill the 2nd day, so I had to learn some of her material ... students didn’t speak English and I had to teach solo on the fly. Despite the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025