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  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day ... Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  Spring term classes started a few weeks ago, and hence all of us (students, faculty and staff) are back into the rhythm of the academic season ... innovations. Some of the most successful examples are outside of the classroom

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  .005 (elements of software construction), my favorite class at MIT (tied with ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  So you know how cars sit at stoplights with their all their blinkers flashing at different times and then for one moment they're all flashing at the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of ... . unironically, one of the most important lessons out of my time at MIT is to just ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... the bloggers telling them that if there were 6 new posts by tomorrow at

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  we started a flame war, yes, but at the end of the day, we did change ... at MIT. Not to mention the fun of a great flame war. And that's all ... The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  group of friends to take pictures. Here’s a picture of my group: At 6 ... allowed to send in the names of people that you wanted to sit with at dinner ... music. It was great at first, but we quickly exhausted our small cache of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... packing up my stuff at the end of sophomore year, before heading abroad, I ... abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note ... almost all of our supplies. After those forty minutes at Trader Joe’s, we ... there were another 36 on hand), boiling 12 packets of udon all at the same

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were ... education MIT provides. Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my ... factors at MIT. If you're not yet convinced of that, let me present you with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  go to bed at 2:03 AM and wake up at 9:10 AM. Of course, my sleeping ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  felt here at MIT and the lounge was just one of the many reasons. At a ... heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  left under the auspices of lab scientists at MIT's world ... by none other than my floor (Loop). At Random, each floor consists of ... machines at Random get fixed. Stay tuned for the story of my four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday ... a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I made the most of my time by studying for my neuroanatomy exam, but I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  I live at Burton Conner (W51), at 410 Memorial Drive, along the Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006