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• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  once every couple of weeks, so there are often many non-pikans at dinner ... , lives at pika, but he wasn't at dinner for me to get a picture of. Too bad ... pikan Cassandra '07 are two of my oldest friends at MIT. I think I met

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... . I'm mad at myself -- I'm at risk of failing a math class, and there ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  at the outset, but it makes tons of sense once you understand the ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... of Russia before entering Mongolia at it's western tip. Leg 5 ... "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I ... , because I think I would have gotten bored and slacked off. (Many of us at ... A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT ... remember the exhilaration of dancing at the audition and the subsequent ... through songs at the end of the year and be reminded of all the incredible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  keeping track at home). Pappalardo is home to a wide range of Course 2 ... present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  predictions of the event. And so, on November 10th 2012 at 04:19:53 PM EST, a ... best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared ... ). This fall will be the start of my senior year at the Institute (!!!!). I ... I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  certificate from up close. At the end of class, everyone swarmed to the front of ... Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of ... things through her. Things like hacks :) It was a matter of some dismay to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  timelines of multiple people's photos at once. Over 120 people have ... pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove ... , but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I ... Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  up huge TV screens so that thousands of people could watch the games at ... desserted. Of the ten people who sit nearest me, at least 5 never showed up ... So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  headed out at 3 and laughed joyously at the thought of what was to come ... I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that ... and sophomore summers at MIT, and I’ve been a part of the coordinator ... was around the time that I was applying to MD/PhD programs at the end of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  ’m almost at water level, and run my hand across the surface of the uneven ... ’ll text my friend Nathan at some ungodly hour of the night, and drag him to ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... been to a Bruins game, but two of my best friends, Anna '08 and Maria '08, won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007