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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  a lot of people have been asking what movies are still canon. X-Men 3 ... looks like it'll be a first day watch for me. And with that I'll finish asking you guys a simple question, what's making you happy this week?

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  questions remind me of a time when I was coming out as gay in my 30s, when I ... until recently. And I suspected, not in a very clear light when it did. It ... .” So what’s in a name anyway? Are we making too much of the word nerd

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... moving to a different building? I assume that's all decided before the pre

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  , teaching others what I have learned,  and being a vaguely older young adult ... synopsis of everything I haven't blogged about. I spent a week in New York ... year now, which, in MIT terms, is a significant amount of time. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I ... , unable to pick out Iraq on a map. As I'm leaving, I realize that while in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... and figuring out what it takes to get an A in a class at MIT.  Aim high ... HASS class and you have to do your best in your classes - but what should

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  "...albeit a very useful one." --Albert Einstein I think I found the ... anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... 'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax ... version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... same quick question i asked every person before her. - "what group are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  indicator of whether or not you were a resident of Senior House - from what I ... snow? Here's one, taken this morning from a 4th floor balcony before I ... " mural there before she painted the entire thing over with white in a fit

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over ... before meals when I have a canker sore. 7/10 Oralmedic. This is a topical ... your mouth. From what I've gathered online, what happens is that the top

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... invent something people really want. So, what do you think? Should I try to squeeze the class into my schedule? If I do, what project should I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that ... took me a noticeable and important effort to check myself in public, to ... sitting next other than me in a random restaurant. Something I hate in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  possible. I also have a landline. I have absolutely no idea what to do with a ... drawer and my headphones and pens live in the top left drawer). I have a ... are working on. I’m very happy to have my own piece of a square in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  rational at all, just sexist.) But I don't think it should be a foregone ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... . Yes, I'll head to a Monarchs game once more before I end my time off, so

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ? How much should I factor in money over passion in a career to increase ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  like now what I once read in previous research papers as a muddled big ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I ... a UROP, and I am now pretty confident in sticking with physics

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017