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• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... -based storytelling. That ended, and the psets kept coming, and I waxed nostalgic for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  be up and ready for the morning's activities. When did the morning ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... , and I figured some of you might be wondering what I'm up to the summer ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  . Think about that: If it weren't for my urge to make up for lots of ... going to open mic sessions and symphony hall performances - if you end up going here. Your biggest concern is that MIT, which doesn't stand for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... .851: Water and Sanitation Infrastructure for Developing Countries Lots of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  the circumstances. I spent the last two weeks studying for finals, taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I ... luckily I regained my composure. My group was awesome and ready for the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... working out. So if you've been listening for these past few blog entries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• 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

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  questions about the Boston startup scene. We caught up for a bit, and she ... if I wanted it. I dropped everything and pulled up flight times ... overwhelmed. The convention room just for startups was huuuuge! Larger than any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... work at JPL, although not all of them end up staying on Caltech campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• 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 / 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