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  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... small books on local dialects of Zambia. Though we didn't have much luck ... another minibus to Manda Hill, a strip mall that lots of ex-pats frequent. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... time, it makes me think of Clarissa Explains it All. Please, please

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have ... , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out (several hundred of them late this week; more will be mailed next week, be ... longer remember, the NBM represents the transition of the newly admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But ... that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... of it? Anyway, my dormmates and I had a passionate discussion about it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... bit of everything, some Trans-Siberian Orchestra, some Mercury Program

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... was not aware of this. So, it's a little strange when you've been biking ... , and it can kill a human being with just one kick of its mighty legs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be ... of things that make me happy. Because knowing how much I spend, lets

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at least happy about that. Here are the previous editions of Blogger Wrapped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023