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  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  nearly a month ago. We had the retreat in Cody, New Hampshire. It was very ... I've been really bad about updating lately. It's that point in term where every week feels like a hell week in some way. It's also been quite

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  to take cruft again and make it work again, or do something new and ... Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... balloon pop out of the field in the middle of the Hahvahd-Yale football game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  in. our improv company recruited a new batch of actors, despite the ... reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  absolutely horrific when written down.']normal.[/annotation] Still, in the past few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing ... ,[/annotation]and, in the years immediately post-COVID, there simply was not a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  always saw them as just a fun way to talk to some new people in another ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  perceived that im actually in one of the old red line cars (vs the new ones ... the last book for my reading seminar (infrastructure systems in theory ... crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... Blanco and Slocum. Professor Blanco was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  everyone involved in litter pickup — from the Massachusetts Department of ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any ... solid [annotation note="3 of the goals were scored in the span of 4

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  art projects (like @tinycarebot), are earnest, lovely things in the world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time ... a while.  I'm the Lego guy. Sometimes I just grab people in the air

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on “flavor-tripping parties” in New York and again in 2011, correlated ... ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms, whip out our new planners and notebooks and folders. It's a new academic

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  those papers cited. At one point, I spent a weekend in New Hampshire ... In broad strokes, my life in 2025 is not so different from my life in 2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , but the proliferation of new bits and bobs available in the past few ... , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  In 2011, MIT Mechanical Engineering students went through MISTI to ... in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at Iberdrola in Spain; conduct experimental investigations of rheological

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011