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  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... This morning, a productive time reading 8 (mostly excellent) applications. This afternoon, a less productive time dealing with bureaucracy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to ... chambers and filter bubbles. Wikipedia says:   A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who ... of mind. Away we go! A. There is a running joke in my family (and ... dorm I live in) is that every year we have a couple of residential

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  piece of literature in my life. Howl is for those who aimlessly take the ... forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like ... ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  CourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... excitement in Boston now is like nothing I've felt before anywhere else. Yet another advantage of living in this great city. And what would a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... a giant Trojan Duck (yes it is exactly what it sounds like: a GIANT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... came after I turned my camera off. See, a lot of you are probably in the ... may already be here. All of you must know that being a student is pretty

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  who thinks that the only way to learn a lot is to take a lot of classes ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing but a break is nice sometimes, and besides my mommy misses me), the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  photojournalist who has always wanted to live in a city and finally treated himself ... variants ⏰ Fiona L. ‘27 from San Mateo, California, who wrote a poem every ... , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... friend Lex, who I hadn't seen in ages, dropped by my office. Back when we ... ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  class because Lupe is famous." "People who just accept whatever is in ... creative, who is happy just getting a stable job and living a comfortable ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by ... undoubtedly will write one soon... this semester was a wild ride in all respects

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  anime episode--and there is a challenge to managing that time in the best ... 's quite another to actually attend a con and see what the fandom is like in ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  extemp. Extemp is a speech event where competitors are given a choice of ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  best place for me is a jack of all trades, dabbling in meche and in ... sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later ... from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022