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• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up ... awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final paper for my humanities classes (remember Arrowsmith? yeah, it's on that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  'll write but then never end up writing. For 2018 and 2020, it's pretty ... up the motivation to work on my UROP - or work on anything hard, for ... bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the ... , the Mountain states, and the Midwest -- look for more information soon. For Mark Wahlberg fans: I don't know why, but actor (and former rapper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  . But I don’t beat myself up for not being a professional basketball ... with their years of preparation. So, just like I don’t beat myself up for not being a professional basketball player, I don’t beat myself up for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are coming up), am i3 chair (along with Jess Kim, be on the lookout for ... That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  ) was rebracketing for playoffs; my team, MIT C, ended up right in the ... When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not ... decorated with more winter things. My high school went mildly hard for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew ... Friday we perk up and get ready for the weekend! Together we're good at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  same thing. Fortunately for all of us, MIT has a remarkably strong ... with your problem sets for the week (or even if you aren't...) and are looking for something to do, you virtually guaranteed to find something

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  to join lots of email lists) and signed up to audition for eight of the ... to sign up for the ninth one, the Logarhythms, but one of the members ... prepared an audition piece, I signed up for MITSO and MITWE auditions. (Later

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  members showed up to bring to the table both their ideas for what Cracked ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... . S. Johnston Every major at MIT has a course that's famously hard. For ... Unified. For computer scientists, it's "Laboratory in Software Engineering

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  all, I checked my exam grade for 18.01 on-line. Then I started running around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... alas, for whatever reason, the cash only soda machine in building 66 didn ... up there, but since I am a solidly abnormal person, I dragged my friend

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don ... 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  though she's 3,000 miles away and doesn't particularly care for large mammalian creatures. So this morning, I rolled out of bed two hours early for elephants. The only other Burton 1 residents to wake up were Cathy '10 and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... my Christmas CDs for the last time. I like recycling wrapping paper

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  can get up for an early morning (4am!) puzzle. This Hunt rocks, so far ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowball for the head, Dan and Marie came up with an ingenious idea. There ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008