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• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  phrase has evolved to be a metaphor for an irrational method to obtain some ... walking to class every day and listening to chalk-on-chalkboard, for ... yearning for face-to-face conversation or free food. It's a deeper craving

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... ). For a number of reasons (did you know it takes over an hour to go 15 km ... drive me the 130 km to the next station at the meager price of Rs 2500

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... off, but I'd put two or three blogs in a week to make up for it. Keep ... really miss going to the gym and lifting heavy objects and I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go ... something to blog about from the afterlife. 5. Ben, for treating Mitra and me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices ... . For valuable volumes, they started at $500, increased to $2,500, $7 ... ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  was hard for me, because I like to shower after I run every day. Also ... . You've got to advocate for yourself, and, if you're like me and prefer ... overtime. It's helpful to set out your expectations for yourself every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  daydream–for what is sleeping if not a reason to leave where you are ... I'm not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ); unfortunately for now, I’m not here to say any [annotation note="aside from maybe ... sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food ... spoiled by exchange rates) for the price. [caption id="attachment_109564

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  to Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, so while the sweet ... V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... actually going to take it for good. I am merely borrowing it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  Francisco, I went to pick up a robot vacuum for sale on Facebook Marketplace ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  many came to the lecture for the chocolate -- leftovers were on sale from ... Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... a ton of circuits, hook them up to the lab computers and have them do

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... compared to many other similarly priced brunch options in the city

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  trusting place. At the time, my father was working as a sales engineer for ... out, he used it as an example to advocate for network security upgrades ... few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico ... project.   Frogs for sale at the Central de Abasto Market in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . He reached for her one last time. She thought to slap him as his hands ... mass of toilet paper as people tried to hit every performer for every ... ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for ... to me, compared to parks in Boston – and delicious sushi for lunch, I ... , and proceeded to sit and wait calmly for fifteen minutes) and made it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good ... can filter through the options to search for the kind of program that you’re looking for. You don’t have to be “good enough” to do a UROP

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023