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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  really mean to exist in this world as an adult” and “what do I owe to the ... meeting agendae, planned events, and did the work in order to make sure that ... survive. Is it my duty to give back in some way? I was big on duty in high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... arrangements similar to the most optimal setup found in the "Results" section to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... homework, I obliged with a final exam. One of the most surprising things to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to ... 's our group before our food had arrived, Zach is the one in the middle ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... win against Emerson, we are the first team to ever go 11-0 in our

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... toxins and animals in the ocean you are farrrrr less likely to jump in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in ... were being inspected in the video. However, what shocked me the most was

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... miscommunication resulting in the destruction of the Milk to the list.    Most ... forward in dignity. It is in this spirit that we resign to the fact that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... , to participate in the Discover Aerospace FPOP! In my overly simplified ... . (This is the most stereotypically MIT thing I can possibly think of, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . There is so much going on, right now, in my body: the battle for better ...  midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... river is almost automatic. It’s a daily checkup. Maneuvering the crowds in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  expression is sufficient for programmed cell death to occur in cells of the ... graduate program; in MIT's case, the strength of the graduate program is the ... localized to the surface of mitochondria because there is no CED-9 protein to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  , art is a lifelong learning process. I've learned so much in the two hour ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... learning new things and meeting new people. but the word ambition in its most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  competition, the reality hit me: This is happening. People are going to be in ... to determine who got the most votes (in the form of poker chips), and ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  should! This is not the movie to show to kindergartners in lieu of Barney ... friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  'm going to stop yelling. My voice is getting hoarse, and everyone in the ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  . AOL Radio is on the background, tuned to the Top 40 station. The desk ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three ... physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017