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  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... , scheduling was tight. Along those lines, in class, in clubs, in rooms, I often ... and pester at four in the morning, It feels like I’ve found home, I know

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  ;:) In any case, I must return to my summer before winter rolls around ... physics and decision making involved? I could definitely say that in many ... in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  newest little brother in my fraternity. I departed from home at 4 pm in an ... decision. Aside from eating more candy than my dentist would be proud of, I ... This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... 're actually doing okay; I dumped them in the bathtub when I got home. Definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... employ some different tactics in addressing this issue. In my free time, I ... might see me in person) is the clever hallway trick of, "I don't remember

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  Pika (69 Chestnut Street) I don't know how many of you had the luxury of ... I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown ... So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ever did get homesick in my apartment, I could rush home and eat amazing Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to MIT and graduated, ergo, genius. By this standard, in two years I need ... 'll just smile and think of how crazy MIT was. With that, I'm going to back

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... all good things are done with other people. i wonder often, how i have

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn ... or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  normal art songs, I thought that mine would be the weirdest one in the class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... accomplished pianist. I think my rule faltered in at least a few places writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a ... lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... research in Cambridge feels a lot more relaxed, and also because I ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... (while I blush at them saying how impressive my academic background is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... in awe. I’d met many brilliant people at MIT before, but W.M. was on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... would begin with typing up the poem I’d handwritten the previous day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022