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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... was working on at 3am the night before). The four of us make last minute ... hosted at the end of each year to honor graduating students and Course 7

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  when the guy at the counter stared at me with my armful of books and said ... physics! Speaking of that book, the writer of it just gave a talk at MIT ... instead of wasting it staring at my phone. It is a way to have peace in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... . Yum, candy corn. I miss Halloween.) Then I take a seat at one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  of a hot dog with jalapenos and a chocolate donut at the local gas ... of New Mexico is characterized by rocky hills and gaping gorges ... the road when folks asked - as they did at every one of our meetings

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace without letting the pictures fulfill their purpose? At marching band we ... Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I

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

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... eat at any of Harrisburg's otherwise fine pizza establishments anymore ... of the day had come half an hour earlier at Broad Street Market, when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  could never understand any of that math stuff!" (that's okay, I'm bad at ... contributors: Turns out that the aforementioned early showing of 21 is at noon ... DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... tuned. The concert started at 8. We stood RIGHT at the front (well

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  of intense workloads and the difficulty of transitioning to a new ... set of friends but never really had a "friend group" at MIT, instead ... because it's somewhat at the bottom of my priority list. I also am taking 6

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  Germans protesting very much. Note that I myself got a pot of hot tea and at ... concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... actually not so fearsome anymore. It's kind of small, broken, and covered in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . - Tuesday, February 11 Yesterday, I woke up at 8, poured myself a bowl of ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at ... I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  My final semester once felt like it was at such a distance. I ... of me. How was I to do it seven more times? The soon-to-be graduates ... endured their time, had a stronger sense of their futures, and were much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  of ourselves. This is the dawning of a new age. The Age of Real ... high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  . If I'm feeling up to it, at lunch I'll cook a new batch of something to ... at least one of them. By the end of the night, hopefully I'll have ... a big batch of something new. Sometimes I cook with one of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  : It’s hard to stay healthy at MIT! Because of this, each of the ... academic emphasis of sororities, take a look at several of my previous ... , you can drop-out of the process at any time, but at least take the time

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... So. I decided that I needed a new banner. Alright, so that's a lie. Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025