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  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... opposing windows to use in my EC room and mixed the air all up with the fan ... my room, I get to come back to it finally after the summer is over and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal ... , or FR) This is the seat you'll probably get if you check in late and it ... . Have to store all of your luggage in the overhead bins, annoying if you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... everyone is sitting in a small booth, inches away from the rotating cylinder ... Gander, Canada comes together to take in the hundreds of passengers from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... reading to hear Prof. Díaz, as he is teaching the following courses this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... Confidential" to the search* *Gags at the cesspool that is CollegeConfidential while ... said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  'll list the ones that first come to mind. My favorite band is Slipknot, with ... My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian Blog. I wanted mitadmissions.org to have an area devoted to the many

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the ... This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... '06 will be walking with us as well. If you're in the Bay Area this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  is designing a skintight spacesuit akin to the one in the movie. I ... Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits ... steps to Montmartre, easel in hand, dreading the next ten towers they ... on a train to Berlin. In a few days I would bring the Fujifilm

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ’t really believe in obligation to the past, especially because obligation is ... the need to be attended to most of the time. i should be allowed to take ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a more full answer to that question: In addition to lab classes and the ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... window yesterday is certainly being put to good use. The view has changed ... , sometimes, all you need to do is ask. Because within the day, I received 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too ... to get your adventurous little self out of the country! I know this

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  -envelope calculations to determine to what temperature the chocolate had to be heated in ... in the 223 suite. The plot: An evil clam comes to Boston to unleash ... sheets. The most review sheets I ever had for a class was 12, front and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the ... the 19th most powerful person in health care in the United States by ... incredibly exciting is that we have the best faculty in the world along with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full ... movies related in some form or fashion. It has the potential to be an

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  So the title is pretty obvious, I'm modeling this entry after Sam's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... a treat to join in on. And if you enjoy guitar or the flute or the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009