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  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends ... that aren’t taught in class—like how to coordinate a complicated software ... -intern Giants game at AT&T park, organized a weekend trip to Corgi Con at the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... in a large beaker of water (it didn't), Dourmashkin pulled a latke from ... 8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure. =) Since I don't have any design experience, it's not like I'm responsible ... After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions ... conference hosted at The Hague. I'm a fellow at the National Center for ... spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  . it's fine. i'm fine.) other times it's just hearing a song that ... a pleasing "i don't need you to be successful." and with every ... was angry and we didn't communicate. there was a residual grime that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  I don’t know what I’m really thinking about until it comes through on ... a foreign land which told her she didn't belong, which told her to go ... . Where I’m From I am from paint smears, From pencils and paper. I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  questions, rather than someone like me, who wasn't actually looking for a ... Islamic point of view, the discussion...wasn't really much of a discussion ... say, 'what a pretty sunset.' You don't say, 'Wow, look at the way the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  the title, some days I'm just more creative than others. Today isn't one ... blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary clock from scratch, cruised around in a limousine, met Randall Munroe

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  point of going to a campus preview weekend if you don't go home with a ... weekend - Don't pay for ANYTHING (except for maybe MIT clothes like a ... it would be like to be a student at MIT. We don't just go to class here

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  just asked, "How heavy is Polar? How do you know it won't fall through a ... semester designing a real product that gets presented during this presentation. And many go on to become real products, like the Avive AED

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  didn’t think I was a “real” physics major because I liked hands-on work ... equilibrium and how to cope with that.” In a similar vein, JLab is “systems aren’t ... wrong with the instrument. I looked at a reference point and didn’t get

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... memories and stories, the same way that a certain song can conjure up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  pineapple fried rice. It wasn't a large serving and tasted average, I'd say ... different country each time. - While I'm here, a few more interesting sights ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  of my required biology restricted electives. Since I'm 7A (a sort of ... Developmental Neurobiology. This is a 9-unit CI-M that is essentially just giving ... have been Doing nonstop. I think it might be a personality thing. I tend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and I'm so excited that I'm just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  exclusively facedown and the last one optionally faceup. You also get a t ... , the swim test went virtual as well. If you were a Senior that hadn’t ... I wasn’t in the worst boat—some kids didn’t even know there was a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  Like Allan, I'm obsessed with taking notes. I'm also obsessed with ... quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... class notebooks. I've also found that it's a lot more fun when there are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  was all fine with me. If for any reason you didn't get a call, you really didn't miss much, especially if you're already a dedicated reader of ... helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it ... ’s basketball team turning up strong! If “athletics” isn’t the first word that comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017