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  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  language for an hour, but they were actually designed to facilitate people ... wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college. After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  Graduation Ceremony where I sat for several hours and talked about the book to ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  20 hours a week. To be clear, letting your hardware decide whether to ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of questions and interrogations to start pouring in any day now. Just kidding. However, lucky you, I'm going to tell you what I've been doing anyway. I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that MIT alumni are dedicated to having as much nerdy geeky fun as they did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours ... haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... culture[/caption] I'm scared to act as weirdly as I normally do in fear of contributing to the "loud unrestrained American" stereotype, so I did a bit of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  supposed to be around four or five hours, but the traffic was bad enough that ... dinner. It took us around three hours to fry all the lumpia, because we ... the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... brain because I've had no opportunity refused to create the opportunity to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour-long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  more about our world, feel free to check them out. I worked longer hours ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... show up 2-3 hours before the house opens, and the box office has a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  -hour access to the studio but no one telling you what to make or when ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up ... that should rightfully go to the extremely awesome '14s (seriously, I ... trying to do everything possible to distract myself from the fact that Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006