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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  up pretty chipper people (see Matt’s post). For those of you who were ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  well up as I began gasping for air, one hand barely holding the rest of ... , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  (which frees up time in the afternoon to work, and thus sleep for the ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... up into three independent branches, that I will argue provide a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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  enough to employ my father for so many years. I'll keep you up to date as I ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  sketches of random things. You can think of it as a warm-up for drawing. For ... that we created for a poster that I am now hanging up on my wall. At ... to draw a tent I saw on campus. MIT often puts up tents for major and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  in our league (and many other leagues) for seniors to dress up and race ... engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  on the board for the first time, I realize I messed up the LED routing ... Kicad from [annotation note="Electronics for Mechanical Systems II"]2 ... the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  as you jumped up and down in that crowd, holding on for dear life and ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  someone was holding it up, and getting my bag flagged for manual inspection ... amid the virtual-ness of it all. For now, I’ve gotten a messed-up sleep ... , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  as soon as they go, making way for the lows, and then right back up ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... face burning up despite the slightly chilly weather, you feel on top of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... that make up a perfect breakfast"]leisurely eat breakfast in the office

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  , but I ended up qualifying for my 3rd consecutive senior nationals and 6 ... energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  interface for the pingball game) to set up Wednesday’s check-off meetings ... my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... ,” I say. 9:15 am: I wake up, 20 minutes before lecture. 9:45-ish am: 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  hardest part is just picking up the phone for the first time, and I ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... Representative Katherine Clark. Now, I'm normally very happy to pick up the phone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks ... wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005