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  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ... " column--and guess who he asked for scientific advice. Seeking an expert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• 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
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... included city-wide pillow fights, web-comic meet-ups, no-pants subway rides ... summer. I checked out the Banditos Misteriosos website for the details. The

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  ourselves up the best we could and waited for any final comments from our ... left in high spirits, knowing that we had all signed up for the best ... class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  in about a month for an internship, so I was reading up on Sound ... frog for a Korean Soju brand and it is adorable. There was a pop-up store ... way too sleepy for it. My friend was dressed up as Emo Jimmy Butler, if

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... . March 12, 2020: After my afternoon classes, I walk into the glass lab for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... Pool arrives, and a dollar and fifty cents worth of travel later (that ends up ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  for audience choice were up first. Each participant’s bucket was weighed ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  . So did I look up training plans or strategies on how to get my distance up? Nope. I went for a 5 mile run to test out the waters: My big ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... pulled up. Survive bear encounter: check! A couple minutes later, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  Galactic. I signed up. Come November, I got added to the Discord server for ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  up for the winter. If buying winter clothes poses a financial burden ... you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had ... different requirements for tests and vaccinations for different countries so

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  up with. Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry, for even more poetry examples ... happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was ... of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for ... heart so overwhelmingly ached for another.  as fall semester progressed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... dinner and started looking for classes to take next semester.

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... 21M.840: Create a text for a 3-5 minute performance. This text must be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010