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• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  for a meal was more like a minefield, where I regularly misstepped and ... what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  wrote, "I'm coming to visit MIT as a congratulatory gift from my dad! Any ... equivalence. I actually thought it was just a rabbit-shaped handbag or something ... strange because I had heard a story the previous day about somebody bringing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... singles, doubles, triples and quads. For a quad, I suppose, one could have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  for it: A restaurant that only sells chicken nuggets. I know, I can ... had those nightmares you get before a big event, where I screw up ... answer! I know: so impressive. After a suuuuuuper long wait for tiebreaker

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... other MIT students on the street, so if I really squint, I can feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  powerfully beautiful to me. Thanks Kevin, for this :D I think there’s a point ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can. Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... . Is it blessed or cursed? I can't say for sure, but now it's on the ... for the meme, but I don't really have a favorite song. I usually

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  positions where I feel like I can have a direct impact on humanity.   ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the ... lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  shows you where I work-- at the wonderful Whitehead Institute for ... separate the fragments by length. I can then extract the DNA from the gel and ... metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for ... left for the Fest. As I walked down the Infinite Corridor, the 251-meter

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from my list happened there? 1,2,4,6, and 10. I too have a Mastering ... , rounds the corner from a hallway orthogonal to the one I'm in and sprints ... segment from CBS's "Big Bang Theory"] I'd like to use this video as

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  a brief respite from the gray smoke spewing from Santiago’s factories ... . After lounging around for a while, they piled back into the car but ... called from the back. “I’m missing my DSLR camera!” called another. The

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  here! sometimes you just need a break from the stress, a place where you ... because how can a small animal be so good (but maybe i'm just jealous 🤔 ... ;3 baby seal: much like this baby seal, i am a potato whose corporeal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... abstract concept that I don’t think anyone can describe completely in a ... down, hoping that my life will unfold like a romantic drama where a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  8 also offers a flexible major, called 8-Flex, where I take fewer ... "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which ... figure that out. That class requires a different mode of thinking that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  app, which I use religiously. For the most part, I open the app, open a ... bottom makes it seem like I'm marking questions from a physics problem set ... Spotify) so whenever I hear a song I recognize but can't remember the name

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  chaos, but IAP is almost over and I can't wait for a new awesome semester. ... .  After a wonderful night, Ali and I made cookies for hall and I proceeded ... event for all. Except that I quickly learned that I am not a butter

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... signup for downhill skiing, so I went cross country skiing instead. Unlike

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025