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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  abuse. Wow, Super Energy Pill would be an awesome band name. Uh, sorry ... them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I ... easier (shoot, three more days!). Anyhoo, I'm going to be covered in fur

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  . Long ago I spent a year at MIT (my “junior year abroad” in Boston) so I thought I knew how the place worked (not quite, Dad!). Our family has a comprehensive medical plan that I buy through my employer, who negotiates with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  I would from the giant pills, so I got the giant intimidating pills. They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head ... me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in ... of myself for my Instagram. I would learn a few dances a week since ... -pop because lord knows how many dances I learned between 4th and 7th grade

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  dinners and parties. In French House, I've learned how to feel responsible ... inspired in ways that I would otherwise never have been, and become best ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  buy most of my produce here. Since I live in East Campus, I have enough ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs ... , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  out after our clinic in rural Nicaragua. Since I don't want to ... deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... Since I discovered that under my new schedule, I practically have NO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  some point it seemed possible. I kept pilling paper after paper in the ... kickboxing every now and then so I know how to duck now. In attempt to ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  participate in community service. In NCAA Division I competition, Gethers has ... Carolina], will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  me. If anyone has advice on how to stop this I would appreciate it ... not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... , I'll share them here. I would like my sophomore year to be less rough

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... , everything would be TERRIBLE and I would be SCREWED. But that didn’t happen ... the Charles river. If you ever find yourself on campus, I would highly

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  problem of dirty and disease-ridden water. A “pill you put in the glass,” a ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... Matt Damon? The actor? I thought MIT Commencement speakers were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  If you haven't yet, I recommend that you first read my previous entry ... ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India ... morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... malaria pills, and woke up to the sound of a cacophony of howler monkeys. I kept a journal during my travels (I knew that otherwise I would never be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  genocide was once again occurring, though this time in real-time, I just had ... exclude securities that would violate MIT’s investment principles [in ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... *gasp* enjoy the problem solving process.  I love how I have free time to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022