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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to ... junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely ... , very natural beauty. Everywhere was mountains and trees and ocean and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything ... , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It ... place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one ... and 2% for MIT faculty members*. *Disclaimer: this statistical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  students. And if you knew how expensive this software was you'd be relieved ... time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won ... at the Registration Day meeting and Continuing Education sessions (like last night's session with a psychologist and a social worker from MIT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  [by Clarise Snyder - Director, Concerts Office, MIT Music and Theater Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college, you may be surprised by the wide range and high quality

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a ... terms of their future occupations and pursuits rather than just as people ... around the country. But I digress and philosophize. To pass the time until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... about that. I got the sizzling chicken and cheese, like I do every time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  [annotation note="well, 4.66, as in 5 until mid-April and 4 after that. But that ... semester, UROPing, and working on my novel. My classes have been the ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... with open-source projects, general computer help, and resources galore. Last Wednesday, I attended the SIPB Computer Tours and Story Time. It was

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  a bummer week, and my days were punctuated with a lot of downs. But something really, really rad also happened this week, and I want to tell you ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... throughout the week and 7 times to pee--once after my last class every day, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag, and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... into the upper echelons of campus administration, and in the week before break, some folks attempted to make actual change. President Reif and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It ... , from isip “mind” and sanayan “practice”; hence sipnayan, mind practice. I ... you’re done saying it. The words “tangent” and “integer” are cognates

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  still have not seen and will probably never see. life lacks closure like always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of this remarkable experience and everything that came with it. i know i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... arrival. I had just finished unpacking, and my room was missing a trash can

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay ... play the same games over and over, so I get through games at a slower ... Markup, back when I made my incremental games post, and I got into them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... until days later, when the sky finally cleared, and the sun shone down, melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021