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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  living groups at MIT, including some absurd number of fraternities; about ... cheerleaders were talking about them at practice. Isa dressed up like a bunch of ... of student life at MIT?

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  should be at least one electron in one of the orbits, with a squiggly line ... of grass at night, staring into nothingness. They look contemplative ... classroom, watching her teacher at the front of the room draw on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you ... at something in the distance. I join them, curious to see the source of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... was happening in all of my courses, and all of my research, all at once. After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , at the insistence of one of Charles Schulz's friends. The friend sent ... at the Peanuts table. There are countless stories of people reading the ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i ... about my music knowledge that all happened at the end of high school

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and on stage here at MIT. This is an important goal as many of the ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  both, even though they’re capped at 15 [annotation note="the number of ... true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  . But after moving into my fraternity house at the beginning of this ... smoots. At MIT campus Approaching Lobby 7 In front of Lobby 7 ... take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  nearly forgot, the little company who's in charge of this thing, CERN? Yea,at ... . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  haven't perfected the art of being in multiple places at once. (Yet ... was hanging out with a bunch of mutual friends at Theta Xi, yet another ... week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008