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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... angry with." These work with varying degrees of success.) I hoped to ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption ... , looking at the other cruft blog posts[/caption] As one of the least crufty

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  m: i've been having a lot of trouble blogging lately so i'm thinking of doing a blog that's just like, conversations i've been having with ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  unnatural, fake, and caused by reading milenial blogs. After these days of ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019