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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of the cruise in complimentary pizza rolls within the first 5 minutes of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... , with nearly all of the remaining students remaining on campus in dorms ... the same building, or even the same room, for nearly all of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  . After exploring the Minuteman trail (including a statue of Uncle Sam; did ... around the entire campus, instead of staying on (or even in sight of!) the ... existing Quidditch teams and their snitches. Some of the snitches will do

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our entire family tree. I went home and wanted to write the stories of ... collection of ramblings and loose ends that don’t deserve the term “novel”, don ... ” means. The other three iterations of this draft touched on all those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... succeeding, since the positive impact of your successes will eventually far ... of your childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... not too long after a member of our family died of cancer. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

    Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... Every semester, one of the male living groups on campus, Chocolate City

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... this earlier in the year, and a grad student friend of mine said ... know people who know people. Friends: remember that the vast majority of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  front of our shirts displayed our real names, but the nametags Shannon '05 stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical ... had submitted the name. Add to that the fact that some of the people who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water - the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014