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  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  so t-shirts (though most of them were at least three sizes too big for me because I apparently fail at pushing my way to the front of the line ... free stuff, I spent time cooking a gourmet French dinner at New House

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of-hours-working-at ... thoughts. At MIT, I found a world filled with vast expanses of chalkboards ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  where the clan eats communally at odd hours of the night and perhaps a special festival at the end of the week. I was tasked with joining EC ... particle of mass m and charge +q released at the point (d,0) and traveling a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at ... Lucky's twice last August, once to look at their selection of jewelry and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  of the coffeehouse at one point, but his successor wanted to rename the ... of Car Talk (an NPR radio show about cars) spoke at their commencement ... quickly to new scores and hundreds of single-note corrections which I, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  November, one spurt of effort at a time. ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  wacky architecture, there's a large presence of dorm culture at MIT. In ... offered us an impromptu tour of Random Hall, which we gladly accepted. And ... befriended Aiden, who would eventually become one of my closest friends here at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  HORRIBLE! You probably just lounged around and laughed at all of us!" While I ... whittled down by 90%, a new class decided, and now all sorts of changes are ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... buildings left, and East Campus is going offline for renovation at the end of ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  . So I'm always building something new. Rosen: Most of my airplanes are ... reading the comment I snarked at Adam. I'm enough of a computer snob to use ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT ... I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  ), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT ... spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... that concept at all. In this case, though, I think it’s a question of ... against this at all. I’m a student, that’s the entire purpose of getting an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  those at MIT? Is it easier to get a good grade because of grade inflation ... entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  the rest of time. i stare at my hands, crackling from efforts to cleanse ... kaleidoscope of shattered glass A new bruise! The lined purple black ... with a smile on your face at the thought of being with him once more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not ... of puzzles and a new type of abstract thinking. I also took [annotation

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... the recording studio at MIT which I helped build (from scratch!) back

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the ... middle, to three of their friends flanking them. i glance again at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  take a look at some of the artwork on display and be inspired or travel ... gain some new perspective, then get down on the floor with a bunch of ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011