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  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the autumnal equinox, but an actual BAM! Leaf in face. It was new, and weird, and ... didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  undergraduates work in teams of up to 3 and create dynamic websites according to a ... Mariia and some other friends who were quarantining in Boston like our BU friends Joe and Louis and MIT student Jacky (who was previously featured in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  now and again. In Boston, however, since there are so many people and so ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... discussed, in class, our favorite and least favorite styles. Then we were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  policy problems in depth. The problems range from economic growth in the long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic stability in the short run. Many economic models used today are surveyed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  confused about 006 as I am. But there are ways in which it's so clear that ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  , whatever result you have, will take it in stride and move forward. Throughout all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  rfong style, I celebrated by buying a 14oz teapot. Just kidding. In even ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an ... is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... credit card fraud, and cashed in my winning lottery ticket. Despite having ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  home! All of this amazing and terrible chaos culminated in me sitting in ... all of last week's craziness, watching the sun rise with toast in one hand and a pen in the other made me feel human again. It probably hurt me

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs ... remind you that I am getting a degree in June. It is my final term here, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010