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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  't have nearly as many hugs, spontaneous bursts of song, or sunbutter ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... part of this organization since 2004, and this was my 4th visit to Uganda ... —to document the trip. Along with the camera, I carried roughly fifty rolls of

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... uneventful." My 4 pm-11 pm shift this past Sunday agrees with about 2/3 of ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... . However, over the years, I've heard a lot of advice and have even given some of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going to blog about them all at once RIGHT NOW instead of putting them off ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... opinion, this diversity is one of MIT's greatest strengths. Although I could probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011 ... house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which ... Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  This is Akash: Akash is the president of the Class of 2009 (like ... all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... a sweater. I walked out of BC towards Baker’s dining hall. And I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot, particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023