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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and ended up studying about two hours for the second exam, not really ... doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... hawk-cam up on the big screen - just as Daddy Hawk brought Mommy Hawk ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have never gone), so you might wonder why on earth I am awake and not curled up ... involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a ... splashing for a while and the harp plays festive arpeggios that lead us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... converged again for this one class. Walking into lecture the first day was an ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near-exact replica of the MBTA Red Line. This marks a pretty important moment for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  from getting an early start on your project. Wanna stay up late doing homework? It’ll keep you from waking up early to work out and make you fall ... operations officer for Boston NROTC. So what did it cost me? 1. Academic

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  it was finally time to pack it up for the flight home, I wished I could ... relieved that I wouldn’t have to give up Taekwondo or good chocolate at ... ’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... was beloved by all, even though we did end up going a little MST3K on it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  some unknown reason. Get dressed up for a formal ✅ I’ve gotten dressed up for three formals during my time at MIT! The first was Twenty ... Mr. Bartley’s for a frappe ⛔ I searched up Mr. Bartley’s for the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  career, and I did not have it in me to wake up for 3 days straight at 9 am ... I took it, but maybe I was preparing for my sellout era. I wound up ... , and I signed up for it rather quickly. After going through the needed

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  dispersed and we can’t meet up for class anyway, we’re unable to do the lab ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with ... up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... him up on Apple Music, there were dozens of results. "Which one are you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  gone wrong. And I had so much moving and growing to make up for ... up with joy and relief. At the first chance for audience participation ... my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... this makes up for the fact I haven't blogged in a bit! I really do miss ... Melat (another UROP) was something I wasn't quite ready to give up yet. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it ... I was horribly wrong. I’d signed up to audition for the Syncopasians

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  fucked up about it. I didn't believe I was pretty for about 15 years of my ... most. I am not fond of these echoes. And I think it's for these reasons ... had come home for Columbus day weekend and everything was fine. In fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us ... MIT for Sin LíMITe, or UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025