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  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... . These are just a few of the questions we faced. How many of these can you ... about to sit down to continue the studying I had started earlier in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  assumed it was magic. I mean, how can you ground something and still ... I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However ... sharing similar stories helped me realize how we're all struggling. But more importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “how many question marks can you draw in a minute?” CPW and REX are ... I can’t wait for what the next four years has in store :D ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I tend to get more and more depressed the longer I spend in my dorm room. Thus, I hardly spent any time in my room during the first couple of weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself ... in this time. So do that if you can.   One behalf of ‘Tute Airlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try ... things. Over the summer, I climbed a tree in a banana suit (long story) and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened ... key that I found, MIT takes special care in admitting very special and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  your living space. I was hesitant in taking pictures of my current room ... , I’d just flop over and fall asleep in my bed. It ... anything you can think of. My roommate and I have used the drawer sets to

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  psets can actually teach you stuff that you'll need to know in the real ... Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... stuff, so I schedule it in. Essentially: there are no empty calendar days ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• 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 / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also, if anyone took any pictures, I may be able to post a few here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now ... on Google image search. I hope nobody walking by can see the computer ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019