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  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  . I ended up scheduling an appointment with my TA to go over my test ... the semester, I actually ended up acing the class. Just goes to show you ... (Freshman Preorientation Programs), orientation, and sorority recruitment, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  's what matters the most. And in the end, I just want to say thanks to the man who showed me why I belonged at MIT - who made me realize this was ... Today, as I was walking down Mass Ave after work, I saw some Aero

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th(I ... finishing The Wise Man's Fear I decided to pick it up and enjoy the beautiful ... As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... hold it between two supports. Barcelona, I don't know about. The first ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... Sunday just because each week brought something new. I ended up buying a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here ... rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  enjoyable. Eventually the quarter ended and I was swept up into the world of ... is quickly coming to an end and I'm supposed to finish my PE ... .   Why Mike Conti Is The Man 1. He's hilarious, I've honestly yet to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... only of simple prisms with high-contrast edges on a smooth background. On

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  trip to the Boston Harbor Islands or Walden Pond because, although I have ... 'm spending as much time as I can with friends before the high-stakes fall ... Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  presentations. I gave a lot of presentations during High School. In Comparative ... the end of the year. A year later, I was giving presentations to ... their families. At the end, a man intercepted me in the doorway and said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an ... 8 semesters; that way I would eventually be in "ICE-nine." Oh man, I ... DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... complaining; I like boba as much as anyone, but smoothies, man. There's a Jamba ... out a lot of birds, but whatever.) * My family. Man, have I fooled

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  off. I'd highly recommend not spending too much time (if any) checking ... Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non-fiction books that I read was Studs Terkel's "Working" (which was subtitled ... . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  I thought the ending was pretty meh, though there was this one plot ... I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really. Maybe someday I will. With over 2,500 blog entries, you might think that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  aren't rational!) So anyway, I ended up buying a pair of shoes, plus the ... Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  people have enough time to do x classes and y clubs and z urops when I ... should I talk to my friends from high-school?  When should I get a UROP ... My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  derailed by the raging flame war, I ended up forgetting to pick up a cover ... nothing like chicken. Chicken, which tastes nothing like peas. I ended ... For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008