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  Oh look, an update

  

  your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to ... figured that I'd let you know what I'm taking this term, since some of you ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... faster than Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. When asked by the then

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  compile a list of restaurants owned/managed by MIT alums, and this is one of ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  anywhere in Boston by T. 11. Like a plant, I need a certain amount of ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  eagerly got out of the car only to be struck by another "Holy shit we ... This past weekend was a 3 day weekend because of President's Day ... ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  totally by surprise. I mean, honestly, who thought of a s'more? You can say ... DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... itself after about four uses, I have only a tenuous grasp of personal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In ... there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  accompanied by a tinge of sadness; empathic distress is when observing someone ... essentially a collection of very fragmented pages and paragraphs written by ... , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  of Philadelphia by train. After an unsucessful visit to the Liberty ... replaced by a giant benevolent statue of famous Quaker William Penn. After sitting by the fountain at the Tomb of the Unknown American Revolutionary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  say that was; although attempted provocation of passers-by isn't all ... post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of ... tool in BMF kitchen surrounded by some of my best friends. Someone is ... fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical ... language besides English I turned to one of the better suited places to do

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... , classmates, students of color. we talked about being white, and we talked about ... frustration and our feelings of inarticulation and confusion and powerlessness

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016