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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! Barrel of Monkeys hanging from the Lobby 7 skylight! Complete with ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  the middle of a meeting. Our group didn’t usually hang out during lunch ... ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... my group, got the coolest gig of walking around in a space suit with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , goggles hanging from the neck, a cup of coffee in either [annotation note ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  oversees seven of MIT's women's+ organizations. I've never gone through ... these organizations are a distinctive part of MIT student life and can ... addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always struck me as kind of odd that they picked "Do You Hear the People Sing?" as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  't Pepsi. MIT's a university, so maybe the concept of a graphic identity for a university is something that's relatively recent. As part of the ... of universities, MIT's 2003 logo doesn't seem so recent anymore. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  . For the rest of the evening I'll usually chill, or hang out with someone ... fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  year and am hanging out with different groups of people every day. I don ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Wiz anyway because of its association with food murderer Sandra Lee. So ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005