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  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  what I'd do once those nine hours of exams finally concluded. It felt so ... installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side ... past midnight, convinced I'd never be prepared for three straight days of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  of my short life. -- Hokay. So. Nine days and 10,000 miles of flight ... with some pictures. So, to answer all of your questions, here is the ... fact that most of the events are on Saturday afternoons, which means like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove ... inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... flurry of confetti at any given moment. Gosh, this is so cheesy I could ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... right up my alley. Several emails, a few rounds of interviews, and one ... roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025