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

  

  LGO (Leaders for Global Operations) Program at MIT, in which students receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA ... question, and report back to the picnic spot in less than an hour. GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Dhabi from the sky- a city in an actual desert:   And I was home ... ="1000"] Badminton[/caption] The Glass Palace in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  , News Office October 18, 2006 The Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies will present an evening with Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi on Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  your robot as an individual, especially for beginner builders it ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  , I worked on the end stages of some art installations in Boston. For ... single company for such an extended period of time, and something I had ... and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  , reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I ... ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire ... running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both ... tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  -café, visit an exhibit in the Saga Museum, and enjoy a gourmet (by which i mean ... for the first time in many months. My only regret about the trip is that ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you ... to Alex H. ‘19, for being an all around fantastic person   ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013