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  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will ... week I had), so I paid way too much for some tickets and decided to go

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  once class was over. ;) See? You can get to know your TAs this well here ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  gone to school back home. I've learned so much about the world here ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... -starting people; cool ideas pop into their heads and off they go to make them into ... there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General ... total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to ... : WHATEVER) It is imperative that you take steps to complete this requirement

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  presentations) and quiz I need to prepare for before my last class tomorrow ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go ... helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... MIT receives; it’s not uncommon to have folks from Russia, India, China

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012