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  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute ... news. And bad news. But most importantly, it’s being there for one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... for dear life. In this picture: #1 = William Shakespeare (Sam) #2 ... current floormates of the best floor ever pose with Shannon '05, whose hair

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  engineering for that much. I got some immediate responses saying that the professors were looking for more experienced undergrads or that their lab was ... because it's best to try to seed the cells into something closer to nature

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can ... technological world: what does this mean for human life, both individually and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  recent New York Times article as well: Bras says sensor technologies for ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be ... Tulane University and will attend MIT for the semester. ''I am a bit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  States, and is considered among the best. The undergraduate program is a 4 ... . For good measure, I'll throw in links to the arts@MIT - Dance site as well as MIT DanceTroupe. Tomorrow, I head to New York City for three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... best community, because that's totally subjective - there are so many different people, and thus, so many different communities at MIT - but for me

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... from Massachusetts General Hospital and some of the best doctors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... ; We also refer to people as their majors. For example, "What course are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... talked about musical tastes. He had already said that he played in a band

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... for at least two days to sit down and grind out p-sets, thirty percent ... writing novels, for me.  It’s not like I really forgot that. I remember

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  doing things for fun. Were they artists full time, I would ask? Nope! they ... , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... [/caption] Living on my own for the first time and spending most of my day on research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... myself. The class meets three times a week, twice a week for lecture on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... from a college application. When I wrote essays for undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  pairs to play with. For example, [annotation note="All song links go to ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022