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• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I ... “compromise” with myself was that I wouldn’t sit as the chair of the REX committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... surprisingly large pool of obscure and random knowledge, and even more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I ... Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of ... . My parents and I alongside one of my friends and his parents.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885 ... process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever ... story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out ... read this. Ben has put it more beautifully than any of us ever will.) ps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , though, it evolved from a source of amusement into a source of irritation, even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... become something of a fashionable habit. I felt as though I couldn’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... , your personal worth is determined by your workload: your lack of sleep, your berth of problem sets, your number and difficulty of major. Your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to ... facing up: For those of you who haven't been to campus before, that's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of ... this[/caption] I ordered a 64 pack of chalk, which would definitely be ... revolving door of chalkers started helping out. I made peace with the dust

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... rainwater hasn't already. The warm days of summer have already breathed their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017