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  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  keys on my computer's keyboard have been acting up since January, making it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... or that one key up top with the incomprehensible symbol on it? Oh, wait

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  backing up, about someone not flushing the toilet, about the nation's state ... grateful for it. At MIT, in certain departments, there are entire courses ... behind the experiments, ideas for improvement, equipment debugging and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  train stations for the past three weeks. It's long, hard work, hence my not putting up a new blog post since I left MIT. </sarcasm> My nonblogging is apparently reason for you to yell at me. Please don't. Every post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  noodles until we get scurvy and staying up until 4AM day after day ... stay up until 4, what with none of my classes this semester starting ... being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  "shut up Mollie, you've been dating him for over two years, I know he ... another one next weekend when he and my mom are up for graduation. I ... So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I

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

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston ... for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  American Gods. For the day's entertainment, I introduce you to the conecpt ... emailing lists for official announcements and such, have a "talk list", or "discuss list" for debates, flamewars, non-official announcements, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the first time. And yet again, when I woke up this Wednesday morning with the ... being sick, this illness was notably bad for two reasons: #1: Zendaya I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... of an idea that was. I was going to bed exhausted, then waking up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  . Flour Bakery's got little Valentine decorations strung up around their ... right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... , where x is the number of people signed up for the trip and y is the legal ... normal person seeing this movie for the second time, I obsessively combed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... ? You know this question is required, right? Whatever, just make up some ... -motivated undergrads; overall, a win-win situation for everyone involved. Additionally

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  : Critical Worldbuiling with Nisha, and for my latest story, I drew up a map of ... For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  the visually impaired, from the ground up. For some of our users, this ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... up with folks from MIT Comms, who were leading the redesign of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... .25 + $.50 for Nick) Erica gives Simon $5.76 Nick gives Simon $5.18 That might ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  -booking. whilst 6.905 is 14:00 to 15:00, i signed up for another class that was 14 ... ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i ... is the lecture for 6.UAT oral communication. this is an unusual class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  this class did not start out well for me as all I had from high school ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... lectures, my professor brings up some interesting facts about the early

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  'm pretty sure she was joking, for some reason the idea stuck with me. Over ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... not me, nor should you be! What I found worked for me may not be ideal

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007