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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat-n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... . Yum, candy corn. I miss Halloween.) Then I take a seat at one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... hopefully my 2019 blog post is true. At the moment, I might only know some of ... September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking ... lectures feeling a lot better about the difficulty of classes at MIT - they ... one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  my daily nonantics. Speaking of boring, I had a four-hour shift at ... way up at the top of this post.) Anyway, a long-ish time ago in a land ... behind. I've had a multitude of amazing opportunities at MIT, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  quality of the safety net at MIT. At MIT the students are multi ... length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer ... less than a normal semester... read more at http://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/summer.html. Some folks choose to spend summers at fraternity or sorority houses

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  and eating at local restaurants. We ate some of the best New Mexican ... the history of potatoes at the Potato Museum in Idaho, and finished out ... with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  ! Here’s Maisie speaking at TEDx Fruitvale   I learned a lot of ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  at MIT. He is studying asteroids in the main belt of the Solar System ... Astronomy at the Univeristy of Hawaii, but he also has a faculty advisor in ... have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when ... with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  complex story arcs and character development, and at the end of its 74 ... at young boys"]shounen[/annotation] and ends in a pit of darkness. It ... At long last...the [annotation note="anime/manga/general Japanese

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at ... I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  works of art which could only be created at MIT. All of Tavares's work ... LVAC), and Leila Kinney (Director of Arts Initiatives at MIT, who runs ... . The drawing at the top of this blog is a study done in India ink on

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... fell I finally felt at home again, with all the memories of building ... -needed peace of mind. This year, the snow has come at a much more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , and Greg at the OME, and I hope that next summer you can be part of the ... was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... perhaps the most famous class at MIT, and Prof. Slocum is one of the best ... economies. Matt notes: 14.02 was one of my favorite classes at MIT. Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... the glass and ooh and ahh at the marvelous creatures. Of course, as we ... remember so clearly the lobsters laying still at the bottom of the tank, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  punctuation at the ends of paragraphs the second half of 2023 was absolutely ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025