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

  

  , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I’ve come to understand that the Lloyd clan has its own vernacular. For

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

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  semester is starting to heat up and being off P/NR is mildly terrifying. I ... thing. We were going to take it back to campus, but we ended up eating it ... really is. “Someday we’re gonna have it figured out.” I said, “Come senior

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  pset to do and only two days until it is due!” (Literally me with Real ... ), that I just took last semester, so it is all fresh in my mind. I don ... ! Academically, it was the best part of my week. It felt great to be back helping

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... "special": this is a chance to read Medieval texts - significant, milestone ... 't get anything out of it. On the other hand, The Hobbit is pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  sponsors the class, but it’s open to anyone in the MIT community and is ... SIGGRAPH only comes once a year, so the time leading up to it is quite hectic ... our trip to Nicaragua, it’s also important to take breaks which is why I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do ... everyone knows your name (and probably your dog’s, too). It is important to ... institution in their hometown is unheard of. It’s about learning to maximize the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... exception I make to unbridled laziness is making enough money to make me happy ... with trees.   Subsequently wonder how it is that you never

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh air. It snowed the night before, so we got to hike on as picture

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... , but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  is no doubt that this dorm means so much to its residents and house ... more likely to deal with mental issues and struggle in school. It is a ... are as well. It is hard to not be aware of the news and of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , it is a significant investment of time to do the problem sets. Another option is to take it self-paced through ESG. there's kind of no reason to ... true is that? It's the very smallest dorm, so it is more difficult to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don ... . Boston is a shower of sparkles that perpetually feels as if it ought to ... people I’ve shown think this poem is incomprehensible. It honestly is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  just appeared the other day and mine is, as far as I know, in its final ... schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin ... Fluids. This is the class I'm afraid of failing. It's notoriously difficult

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'll never fully come to terms with, but I'm working on it. One summer is all ... , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while ... to finishing it, so naturally the best time to start working on it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... Boston when I saw it happen, and it just warms my heart to see it on the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  — the path to wise, responsible citizenship — more than it does now. It is ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... . To state the obvious, AI in particular is reshaping geopolitics, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  . Enjoy it (you deserve to!). A deferral is not a “polite rejection” – I was ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010