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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety ... of the kind that happens all the time. I am naïve, I am foolish, but

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

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... perhaps the most famous class at MIT, and Prof. Slocum is one of the best ... , tools, and applications in bioengineering and a survey of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range ... up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  ."]sunny[/annotation] fields of North Kapaʻa on the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi! Caleb, what the ... the people he cared about as we danced through the second half of our ... friends, and a bit of application writing at the secret Flour bakery (which

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200 ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  -Office-type articles and whatnot. As some of you will remember, the blogs portlet was buried way down in the bottom right-hand corner of the site, and we had ... other print material by taking full advantage of the web's interactivity

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  answer," he says. Fan websites offer plot summaries of all the books, and ... the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify ... : PARSIG’s goal is to understand the mechanism of L. donovani infection and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to ... 's approach at an intellectual/theoretical level (the rhetorical mode of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... - the mountain monument The View. This escapade of ours explains why I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... ."]Dormspam[/annotation] asking students how much they spend monthly to see the cost of MIT outside

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... headquarters in Cupertino, CA to engage with the rest of our team and do my final

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012