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  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and ... . Working at the front desk of a dorm means you meet a lot of residents, help

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... of our hall members, we (the 21+) went to an adult dance party at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support ... . Every part of my body abhorred that idea. I could not, at the dawn of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  pictures of the tube and card. Probably because they came at different times ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  from home, where all of a sudden you are faced with a whole new set of ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at ... of roofs or salsa dancing at a club in Central Square.) Basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious ... at MIT has a cell phone, so bringing one of your own would definitely ... leading an line of boats at the beach of a desert island. It's nighttime

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  't surprise me if several of them were planning to go. At any rate, several ... umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... at MIT is because the people who can do this kind of work take an idea ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  person anymore I still will greet each new class at MIT with excitement. I ... most of the opportunities available to you there you will be at the best ... Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to partake in everything new that I could, to funnel all of this energy I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  easily span an entire semester at other universities without the ...  not equally long, the probability of photons exiting at (e) varies with the path ... of single photons. We use one detector aimed at one of the photon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out ... 't play any of the arcade games because I am not good at them, but the vibe ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... something new was really nice. that wasn't really a lot of things, but it ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019