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  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  completely stacked Google Calendar seems to indicate that I'll have much less ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... to matter as much as the things i didn't even think to think about ... facebook group last night, and wanted to copy it here in case anyone out

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  about leaving this place that has changed me so much. I'm not attached to ... think I'll miss. I am resolved to enjoy it as much as I can this last ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  freshmen were too hosed last week to devote much energy to study break, so I ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  due to excess carotene. So, I'm not Jewish. Not that there's anything ... . From: Jordyn To: [email protected] Date: 10/5/2006 1:24 PM Subject ... that to MIT Hillel! I think that one time there was some form or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to, and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  , claiming that they felt the need to explain, and I told them that was the ... common nowadays, but I think they are fun, so I wanted to bring them back ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• 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 / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  needed to be, and all of the words written on the walls of the Infinite ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  engines. I think we need to admit more people from Thailand =) The ... trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... ’t spare us much thought besides the usual “Oh, I didn’t know they were ROTC

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... .033): Same as above. -Intro to Cosmology (8.286): It hurts to drop this class ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  this subject. Thank you very much, Sam Much to my surprise, I received a ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  the truth, I didn't expect to enjoy it quite as much as I did (my high ... 3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  to their UROP supervisors their passion for their research (so much ... Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015