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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... ="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  final projects, or cram for finals in classes I haven't attended in weeks ... my best friends, one of whom will be in Italy/Denmark/Taiwan for the ... world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I ... would not have money anymore. In practical senses, I’m grateful for what

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  for you. Back in 2018 — before the adaptation was even announced — my ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  in silence for 15 minutes while being surrounded by others. But the ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  in December for me to wear shorts three days in a row, and when the ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , dress up entirely in pink for the Gangnam Style flash mob in Killian Court ... 2 I auditioned for Dance Troupe and made it! I’m in the subsection ... lettuce leaves in chill weather.” Blogosphere: “Right… work on those similes

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy heart of residential Cambridgeport, my home for the rest of the summer. My ... obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman ... Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then ... , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  turned in on Monday, a final project for advisory on Tuesday, short story ... on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of ... /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating ... time ever to turning in my first p-set to blogging for you guys ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... morning? I don’t think so. Many social norms are rooted in science. For

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog ... -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... -me-to-be-your-friend cool. For $250, all DJs in the studio would sing a song of your choosing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  . That the men in my life are now destined to be this. To be, for lack of ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... on a near-cosmic level, like soulmates for friends. That was until we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at ... from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... make the case in our favor. For example, over the last decade or so, our ... In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets ... Charles River is so beautiful for running. Even Murakami talks about this in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025