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  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really ... off the bus at the end of the day and stepping back onto MIT ground ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am ... checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  , where I met new people who were at most one connection away, a friend of a ... circles. I was thinking of all the communities at MIT: how I’ve grown close ... My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... . MIT Admissions was at the top of my list of places where I wanted to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... way, this is at all not required nor expected. I know plenty of people ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall, everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... “new” people at either meeting"]old,[/annotation]but everything felt new

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  . * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  during my sophomore year, but one time we were at a dorm formal and looked at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like ... all stripes at MIT, ranging from brand-spanking-new to home-built. If

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... live in whole new world where we are connected by...our...screens? Okay ... living before, but things are quite different though. Speaking of two weeks

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats. [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3 ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  , potential discounts? =D Yeah - aside from the great smell of new paint in the ... cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one ... wasn't even really a final exam because it only tested us on the new

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even ... president of the state university of Haiti describe how he pulled his father ... night of live music, dancing, and some pretty funky Haitian food, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025