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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  the gifted sprinters, and us "amateur hobbyists" were less likely to get ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets ... . "You should get out more. How is it possible that you never need to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . One morning, we tried to get into the library of the Sorbonne, but were ... a zero get hit on by an eight? He puts on a belt! Sitting in the café ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  didn’t get too much time to draw out the details, so I scribbled some of ... brass rat! During sophomore year, every class gets a ring designed by ... good Android user, do not have AirPods, though I might try to get some

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  challenged ourselves to get full use of our all-access passes and ride every ... then sat by the edge of the Han River that flows through Seoul to eat our ... really wanted my presentation to be awesome. The next week passed by in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... because sunlight shines on snow, it melts, and drips down, but by the time

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring ... treatises written by the early proponents and opponents of the Constitution to ... adjusting the debt limit was brought up by various legislators. Sen. Schumer

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  in JPAL, and more. When I would be able to get back to India I'm ... /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... , postdocs, visitors, etc. from all over the world. I was exposed to big ideas

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... meeting with various faculty to shape the perfect path for the future, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  -humored kvetchfest by remarking that I have nothing to complain about and that it took ... as mildly painful as getting punched in the kneecaps by someone wearing ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  [/caption] After the opera, we went to get tacos from El Jefe’s across the street ... trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... I needed to submit where by when. I already knew Lydia really well ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  in Physics, 1965. My acceptance letter to MIT did not arrive by owl ... garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on mega-sale, so it cost like $15 =p...by the way I'm such good friends with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  ’m trying to get a sense of what it would feel like to pursue different ... I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  SHARP right after you cut it. We can get rid of sharp edges by sanding it ... , but takes way longer to get the hang of and to execute. A lot of the ... get the hang of tacks very quickly, so we can move on to butt welds

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  been changed to avoid incrimination by PETA. But uh, yeah. Be safe out ... to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016