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  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  sophomore year I missed the opportunity to sign up for Intel. Later, I went to ... usually stay with their hometown area code, or sign up for a new plan with ... only problem I've come up with for Random so far is the distance from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  it up!": It was made by a senior my freshman year, so it's special for ... college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  dress rehearsals and setting up decorations. All that was left for the ... /or the general [annotation note="we ended up going for a more playful ... ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  , and I was inspired to sign up for kayaking as my next PE class.  To be ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don't show up ... endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... numbering system because Campus Preview Weekend is coming up soon. I love CPW

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... and enriching; it opens you up to experiences and relationships and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... ended up re-reading the whole Harry Potter series (fan for life) and the ... home, and have swallowed up Purple Hibiscus, White is For Witching, The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... ridiculous the whole thing was. Then we ended up talking for the better part of ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food ... ’t toast it up more. my fault for getting the rainbow bagel instead of the ... chocolate sauce) viet coffee (very coffee forward. useful for waking up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  signed up for – this was going to be strictly for myself. And in that sense ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  the morning; and Courtney cooked it all up for our divine breakfast ... right now, but it's been sunny these past few weeks. for the most part ... were essentially entirely up in the air at that point, he sent me a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  - it's a scenic drive up in northern New Hampshire and perfect for a day ... and some other friends up to the roof for fireworks, and these pictures ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  up to the East Coast influence, maybe? Regardless (for me at least ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... , final grades are coming out, with little "P" for Passes appearing on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... as a placemat for his jade plants. He pulled it out after finals, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti ... much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008