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  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn ... burrito, I had 81 cents left on my card. After dinner, I went to La

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product ... revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... ? mrreeoooooooowwwwwowwowwwwww! without pause because they want to be fed at 3 am. Or maybe because

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  [annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... of rain. Rat. Squishy soles. No time to stop. Enough time to smile. Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ...   1:33 am: this paper tells me cells have “up to 10 ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued ... want to channel your inner Tim the Beaver. Or if you just don't want to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to ... o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... weirdly overcome with the impulse to overshare personal struggles into the ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... regular day, to a CAMPUS with PEOPLE  e v e r y w h e r e was so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  ’s assignments were the first ones where we had to include sound, which gives ... given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use paper puppets to animate are some examples), we had both been itching to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the ... international students at MIT. The first part displays MIT’s commitment to gender

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do, and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... Arts Center, and read the sign for an upcoming exhibition, and vow to one

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013