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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... about this "hidden gem" even though it's so crowded that you can never get ... and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... 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

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for ... fall so you can graduate in three semesters with every major? Sure thing ... [/annotation] 24 26.5 (The Course 6 classes are highlighted in bold.) Wait, how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... even if I tried. It helps that I’m back in NYC now, and can actually wake

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn ... this: Class 1: Beat Me at Kirby's Avalanche! In high school, I used the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free ... the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can ... formed.  Even for those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  driven in a direction much more exciting and compelling than if I would ... scene in Richard III, a director can choose to play it in many different ... some very fun visual and audio effects. I worked in collaboration with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007