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  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  fun! Today in 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design, we had a pop ... Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... new gaseous and combustible form of water discovered by some guy at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... it to run it and maintain it, but if there's anything wrong with it, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... 's and Men's Athletic Conference"] NEWMAC[/annotation], we won 10 games and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance ... had three floors, over 30 rooms, and a hot tub, so it was a very very good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... action and fun, certain things along the way make you think. It seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  two freebie posts; for fall and spring semester, you can write about ... first test, and he somehow refrained from smacking me (which I would ... 't all that bad, around here, and completing 65% of the material isn't all

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I ... , appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  university, and I obtained these twenty two computers the other day; if I ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011