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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually ... , but I've been doing that since way before my app ever made it to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  processing! My job is to work together with some other people with ... to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate?" "Yeah, sure." Liz and I filled out our rooming forms together -- single sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I ... it came together, finally. So Wednesday I went to check out our new ... I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  signals causes the neurons related to the game to become active again during ... classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  together to create a pattern—it’s like a puzzle! Over the last couple months ... “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... routine. I knew what to do. #runwithmaud spread across the internet like ... may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an "advising seminar." (There also used to be RBA/residence-based advising, where

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... the dishes, so much so that I have switched to using mostly paper plates. But, I realized that before coming to college, I took my home

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  lost their minds. If you haven't listened to it yet, please go do that ... But there was one prize I'd cheat to win The uptight honors student who’s applying to the entire U.S. News & World Report Top 20 universities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched ... would inspire me to new heights of athleticism (although given his recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010