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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  convince you of it, that's fine - it happens at MIT. That's why we have all ... 're still you, at the end of the day. You still have weaknesses, even if they ... sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  gets lost in the rigor of premedical academics is that, at the end of the ... finish before Monday. I'll have more ready at the end of next week, though! ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of ... advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at ... a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... , and found my roommate at his desk. After seeing my puzzled look, he said

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  other news, one of my favorite people at MIT left this week for a semester ... ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I read Chin's book about five years ago, and was madly into it at the time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year ... here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... the scene below (note the delicious Mike's Pastry at right): not your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  come see it! Come join us at the 2006 production of The Vagina Monologues ... , also available at the booth ------ Both my dorm and the Class of 2007 ... :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  apart from other schools. A short list of the topics we discussed at ... hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the ... moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the ... 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

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech ... at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... complicated sweets at all kinds of odd hours, sharing them with your neighbors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... own tumblr blog, so maybe 1/4 of this is still content that I wrote at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  COINCIDENCE he was going to climbing at the wall that night, and the rest of the ... circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  great. But quite a few of them have not, or at the very least have been ... So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008