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  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  It's that point in the semester when days and weeks blur together in ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... , and[annotation note="Those of us in cold climates, anyway. The rest of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  lettuce leaves in chill weather.” Blogosphere: “Right… work on those similes ... best representation. Other students probably save the world in their spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Sunrise at the harbor in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  workshop. Their description in the map makes it clear that it has a very fun ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied ... genre. I was clearly inspired. Really, really inspired. What can I say? Inspiration comes from people who are passionate about something. In my opinion

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn ... fun. And in case you’re wondering, a “wind ensemble”

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... dream that I met a girl in a dying world. In it was embedded a set of coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  pizza so I’m going there instead. No interest in volunteering with the Red Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting ... .) Following this trend, then, it shouldn’t be surprising that food is in large

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  and clearly. If you have a difficult name, maybe give a mnemonic. 4 ... held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge ... with the necessary confidence and drive. If you're interested in general

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to ... to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These retreats (which usually happen in-person, but is virtual at the moment

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  discovered this from rejections. It became clear in those sombre moments that ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... found out Seiji Ozawa's fantastic salmon recipe in the BSO cookbook ... actually her fourth concert in a week, after Patti Smith's fantastic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  . Also, don’t be like me and buy so much stuff in the coop that your ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent, crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011