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  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  want to. You can wake up without a blaring alarm, note the snow out the window and decide to sleep for another hour. And when that hour is up, you ... your schedule for the semester and noticing that, for the first time, you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you. What is CASE?  CASE stands for Class Awareness, Support, and Equality ... ? Intersectionality is the idea that a person's identity is made up of the sum of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  weeknight, which ended up being much better for my test than studying for it ... , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... . This weekend is particularly splendid for a couple of reasons. First of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... couldn't imagine living anywhere else.) This stretch of time is perfect for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and ... headquarters. For those of you who don't know, Hasbro makes Mr. Potato Head ... prototypes for our very own line of toys, ElectroPlushies! We took our toys to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  is a priority for me. Taking a class up at Harvard would introduce too ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... Goodwill has a use for a pair of size 8 super-high-heels... Let's see, what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  ) and definitely does not look suspicious at all. So let's open it up and ... .2060 "Blackbird" lab kit. It's got most of the electronics we need for prototyping ... decked-out version of the kit. A lab notebook I'll be maintaining for 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  happening -- baggy metal shirts for long hours in shop, sleeveless shirts for the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading poems that I write for my poetry workshop class and Alan writes for their

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  apocalypse might show up on your doorstep asking for a charitable donation. Give yourself more time and avoid a heart attack. You’re too young for that. Send your scores now. Please don’t get stuck paying $30+ for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also ... (only $15 for a 1-year subscription, and cars typically hire for $12/hour ... experience for me even when there are angry Boston drivers on the road. Where

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for ... at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... , not only through what they literally write (i.e. "For fun I like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel ... . While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11 ... above sorting out some payment for a meal we shared. Denmark doesn't use

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... 't get the hamburger, because I didn't pay for it. B: I should get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... for jump, climb, dash. The complexity arises with how these simple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  ? He kept going. Let me demonstrate for you. He walked up to my boards ... how people have done it before. Own it own it own it. Dress up for ... into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012