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  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  My dear former floormate Shannon '05 (who's still at MIT pursuing her Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education ... Starbucks, and at this my mental map of Cambridge began to come together. You

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  of time alone to be at my best. It’s not like I was insanely social ... is a light at the end of the tunnel—and they are often true. images ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... enough that I could still think of myself as being good at math, and I ... know dozens of people here at MIT who went to the IMO. I now know dozens

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  me of who I am at my best, and ~30 days left of IHTFP, am I able to ... I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'll see how it goes.   The effort split at this point. One group of ... the leaderboard earlier. This is right at the onset of MIT's attempt to ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... limiting and destructive way. I wish I acknowledged at an earlier stage of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens with hexagonal cross-sections at various angles, the physical properties granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012