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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of ... rest of your life"--is the condition of realizing how incomprehensibly ... , too massive to not have a plan. When I graduated, I grasped the edges of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down the symptoms of workaholic withdrawal through the ancient zen technique

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  down the hallways taking note of club meetings, where they were, and what ... n>>2. The preliminary calendar of events is here, and I have a ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  that end, I want to make use of the handy "blog reaccs only (beta)" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... Design. The concept of 2.00b, or Toy Product Design, is fairly simple ... the perils of group dynamics in poorly managed projects.  People tend to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... giving it some thought, I answered: “to make the most of this last year of ... five minutes late listening to: the sarcastic commentary of the train

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... anomaly. What I don't quite understand is the lack of preparedness by the ... will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... unpleasantness to the situation. But of course I calmed down eventually, and I do realize the futility of this approach. So I started trying to think

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty ... the drive up, topics of conversation included the plot of Harry Potter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the powers at be have begun to realize that nothing swells the ego of an MIT student more than proclaiming him/her as the master of something. I am

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They challenged us to think about the "optimal, ideal inhabitant of the world" and ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012