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  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study ... , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times ... so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... was covered in the Boston Globe and slashdotted, MTG had quite a larger turnout than they expected. Luckily, I reserved my 12 tickets early... here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  Term's over. Almost. I've always felt that term wasn't truly over until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  and extracurricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who ... One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon—in ... class and dropped web.lab.   so everything worked out in the end! i ... classes in the spring.   Mocha Moves   i thought six hours of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I ... long (5 hr) incubation, so I can mix the DNA in with the cells, then go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  couldn't make just in my head, and I find the poem unusually compelling ... the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me ... making it, I make it in my wicker basket. - Robert Creeley   We

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  acquaintance with the equations as they arise in scientific applications. [I ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles, discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... Regular readers may know that I've admired Apple's design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across ... ) as Melis '08 laughs at me in her warm, warm sweatshirt. I hate you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely ... bookworm who absolutely loved Medieval High Fantasy. In the last two years I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that ... , homemade gelato in Beacon Hill, truffles on Newbury, Trader Joe's chips in my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006