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  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a more thorough fashion than otherwise possible in a traditional advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  activities. In other words, Orientation is in full swing! This also means that ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... think- all the days are just running together in my head here) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There's building in the courtyard. I'll take pictures as soon as I replace the batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my ... school in Cambridge, spending very little time at this school which I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... kernels soaked in cold milk). Day 2 (Sunday) Veggie Galaxy (Brunch) Still ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Dear fellow chompers, A year ago, I was asked: … and in typical hosed ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While ... individuals and their communities, and coffee, in particular, carries rich

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... Vegas! (my hometown)']a place that never sleeps.[/annotation] Even in the ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade. “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however, have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009