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  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround ... based on these data alone,” the senior officers added in their letter ... significant concerns about issues of illegal drug use in Senior House.” the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  've faced since the summer ended: living off campus. I lived in the East ... apartments in Boston, the wheels starting turning in my head, and I joined the ... in on-campus dormitories, even though they can technically join MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem ... of 2007, I'm getting a little tired of being in school right now. Not ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... figure out which events we all had in common (lol yeah we went OFF)Here’s a ... as one of the three CPW Chairs of East Campus a while back (maybe in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  on, pass/no record grading, acclimating to city life and being in one of the neatest peer groups in the world. So many of my fondest memories ... Bucknell University, I envisioned news clippings about horrendous hazing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which we place various ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... signs. (for the record, the first one spells out "ATACK 'MM" as in "ATTACK

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  curses, sexual shenanigans at Rutgers University and secret police raids in ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  Lately I've been occupying space. Many spaces, in fact, especially ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do essentially whatever they want: take classes, participate in random activities ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and ... , objectively, but for me it’s a big deal. I finally have HBO access. Another in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to ... , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  idea in December 2013, right around the time Amazon announced Prime Air ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of 2012 As I read the remarks, I reflected on the truth that I found in his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  course 2A (a flexible degree in mechanical engineering) startup cofounder ... students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a variety of engineering disciplines because so many of my classes are in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but there are two days in my life that felt quite similar: September 11th

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in its evocations of tacky yet luxurious department-store sofas. Of ... inflection, perhaps in a context that makes absolutely no sense. Like: “Yo, it ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009