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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  I. Fell. In. Love. I won't go in to too much detail of the tour since ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... the walk down Mass Ave and thinking to myself "How far is this place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies ... tomorrow, walk to the office of administration, sit down in the middle of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... glimpse of artists in action on one of my first days wandering around the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  -dimensional effort to help the residents of Gretna in all areas of life, not just housing. LAW's core mission is now the encouragement of spiritual growth in ... expressed their undying gratitude to the 'kids who roll in every summer to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  "pee sock") is the most poorly documented development board known to ... /hardware systems in the way this class just expected you to. The labs taught you how ... , you tilt your phone to get the little jumper dude to jump on platforms

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  (outside only, no scooting in the halls allowed!). I used them very much at ... ) make rolling over cracks and bumps in the sidewalk much smoother. However, the bearings in the steering column were a bit wonky, making it hard to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  exhausted and not ready to do it all again in the morning, but such is the ... though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... has been a blur). Our job is to basically coordinate all of the events

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... philosophy class in the freshman year learning community Concourse, which is a ... .001) → Rank D I found myself struggling to care in this class. The way beams

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  ’s been truly so fun to watch all of the pieces come together in our games. We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the ... the year. What is something you’re looking forward to for the rest of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... this class pervades in my life as the main villain of most of my life and ... trying to debug the worst code i’ve written in my life." hopefully you get

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  recent years - and is most commonly known in the US as Libertarianism. To ... or theft. Or in its own words, “the minimal state is the most extensive ... to an argument you make is really important in most any scenario, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... 't indulge in. I wanted to go, I really did. But the concert was the evening ... and into America. In the months leading up to their immigration, she

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... about Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is most appealing to a common ... Comm meeting in late September to allocate the preciously limited funding. This

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  bubbles." This is similar to Shannon's comment, which suggested that the chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... eventually do things but I wasn’t quite yet in the right mind space to take ... .  For the first half of our trip, we decided to try "real" camping in a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  kuya, as in "kuya cj". malamig ba diyan? is it cold there? the philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20 ... ] the song "dear kuya" is about overseas filipino workers, or ofws. in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the ... . (Admittedly, this is not a long list compared to the number of supervisors in ... , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  feel, even the most difficult question in life—what is it you plan to do ... , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022