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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  vacation, there is a place where I can wake up to cold, fresh air and fall ... for. A perfect farewell to summer.             Kudos if you can ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac ... bug for me PLEASE in central square where tosci's used to be PLEASEHi, I ... because I am too afraid. Please help me. I will pay you, buy you a meal

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  built a swingset for my kids! Prior to CPW, I used a wheelbarrow to haul ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send ... will begin looking at candidates during the week of May 8. How can I

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  school students for a month. And when I say all over the world, I mean all ... students in a (probably) STEM subject for a month. Subjects range from ... get a lot better and I can hit my goal of being comfortably

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I ... Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... , from Pepsi :) Haha, I know - duh. But yeah, it's from Pepsi, and it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  late. I punted the task of finding a thesis advisor, a task necessary for ... than I can chew—sometimes, to the unfair detriment of others—and a maybe ... ?" And, for a moment, I thought about it. What have I grown into, and do I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... 't really talked to for a year can be immensely satisfying. At MIT, we have ... by myself for a while and just think about things. And I'm grateful for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  the one time someone at a math competition asked me where I'm from and I ... sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  good to specialize. As a grad student, I'm responsible for every detail ... when I discuss science with the public. Last weekend, I gave a talk for ... can to improve science literacy. Earlier this summer, I went to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a story for another day. For now, here are three excerpts from conversations ... : "Oh. Admitting any?" Matt: "Yeah, a few, I guess. Well, I've got to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way ... together in a context different from the usual frantic "I must get work ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  , Mozart reportedly remarked, "Finally, here is music one can learn from ... actually made me wish that I had been born a size zero woman so I could rock ... , WILG also makes me wish I had been born a size zero woman when they hand

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What ... a "dead fold". And as if this is not enough, Parafilm can be stretched ... world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth ... purchasing it. The mystery bag was a door to another world. I later came to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods. For the past few weeks, I've forgotten to buy juice, so any time I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  can look forward going back to every day, an environment where I can "hang out," as the kids say. I enjoy living in a place where we can have ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  , then go to take a shower. 5:00 PM As I wait for Amber to get from the ... gross. First, I need to catch a bus, which stops across the street from my apartment. Sometimes, I get lucky and I only wait for a couple minutes; other

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  . I am not a good person: I wanted to add a song from our Blend to ... distant, hoping it would prevent me from growing too attached when I can see ... ’m nervous, nervous, nervous about where that is.” Forgive me for being a

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022