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  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... , cranking up every dial. I put on my headphones, ready to unleash percussive ... drumming a nuisance... So why am I bringing this back up? Because my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  writing takes time and time is something which you give to MIT for ... friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to ... it "work," and it also forces you to set writing deadlines for yourself

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  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 / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but ... application season, and if so, then this post is for you! First I’d like to ... from home for months at a time, but I also believe the general atmosphere

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... all of you have been able to set up your interview, etc. If you can ... , but we don’t. You should submit an application for Early Action purely

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It definitely was the case for me. I was 12 when Jon Stewart began hosting TDS ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  day for me: I show up at 8:30, my supervisor and I talk about what we ... about an hour south of Tokyo for a company called Toray Industries. Haven ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013