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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... navigate the 77 Mass Ave construction in their cars? So, first of all, every ... just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know ... Fellowships have a competitive advantage in the selection process sample issues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... performance in audio and retrieve to us what you learn about Germany? It's just I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  in front of you in 3.091 lecture was up all night rigging up clever ... questions in a separate entry. Read it all here. Number 2: If you haven ... hang in there and remember that it's not the end of the world. And now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next ... , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... cool out there in the courtyard: This interesting spinning ride, a version of which happens every year, has a freshman in it: "Do you think

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

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round ... , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  . And tour groups in Killian Court looked at it as they went by. Hacks make me so happy. We proceded to Six Flags, which we explored in small ... happy to be at Six Flags. My group spent the first several hours in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed “Shakespeare.” The book was about astronomy research at an observatory in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022