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  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge, crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me ... asked Chat-GPT to name it for me. The inspiration for Somatic was that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... selection in Macgregor [annotation note="RIP to the other room assignment ... need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  is about as easy to follow as the derivation of the Schrodinger ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  had no space left. Appendix A turned out to be pretty much the most ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the gender

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . The reality is that for most of us who are majoring in an engineering ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week. Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... deferred in December, I knew this had to be the case. I had given up any hope ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the ... problems in the first place. That growing up is this thing that’s inherently ... the carpet to stare at the dome, let me roll around in the grass and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  . Anyway, the main point is that (1) thinking too much about the HASS ... is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... fruitless cycle of (1) going to Borders, (2) intending to buy the novel, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be ... . None of this is to say that I don’t adore beauty the same way anybody ... have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  , the past two years were very effective in erasing most of it. to some ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The pretzel, invented during the 8th century AD, is shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... and had to head off. The rest of the band, much more bandcore than I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... epic "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to music (even though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  inch thick, is absolutely hilarious, and, according to the back cover ... event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  you don't have class until February is pretty fun to rub in the faces of ... . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  , since it is supposedly the middle of winter, I didn't think to bring one ... probably have, since according to Wikipedia it's the second most viral video ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008