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Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week
It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what -
Blog / Summer
i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth
beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at ... to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish. our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone -
Blog / MIT Life
Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet
Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.
a rain of pastries. Or the secret to being good at and/or actually ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?
of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... , "Each year, bleary-eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces -
Blog / Personal Travel
seven scenes from Paris a simple story
towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with ... , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the -
Blog / MIT Life
Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in
of Mount Rainier. The larger meadow at the top of the mountain felt ... -up rock of the mountain--gray, rusty read, even turquoise in places. At one ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about -
Blog / Classes
I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years
plan, at the start of my junior year, I scheduled 6.0002 for senior fall ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting -
Blog / Events
Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.
://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at -
Blog / Announcements
meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)
Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... of bloggers. This year,[annotation note="nice"]69[/annotation] people -
Blog / How to MIT
A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS
tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has -
Blog / Admissions
Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion
locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App -
Blog / How to Human
Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF
In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
common than just their looks. They're also graduating at the top of their ... be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Community School of Naples' Field ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a -
Blog / Admissions
ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks
out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... seeing a future Hall of Famer play at your local minor league affiliate ... mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these -
Blog / Announcements
Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students
Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to -
Blog / Study Abroad
From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute
wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he -
Blog / Academics & Research
Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…
On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with
, but at least like in real war, there will be a period of peace ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount