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  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  purchased tickets for us in advance and offered them at half the cost. Many ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big ... Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  a crap ton of lectures and assignments to catch up on. i couldn't work ... my pen to draw anything for myself in months. i've been thinking about ... the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  on that. I only offer my condolences to him for paying four euros for ... Florence I brought two t-shirts for my five day trip to Italy. One of them ... passionately making a reservation so you don't have to play I Spy for two hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... , there are a few that I'd like to suggest you focus on for certain ... . When exploring for a computer there are some numbers you want to consider

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my ... enough training for at least a Bronze medal in the Olympics. I'd like to ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... more substantial. It's also always helpful to have the book put out for ... credit for Calculus BC, you don't have to test out of single

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference was really fun. I met a ton of people AND got to swim on a Florida ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... funny.’ Thanks for that, Jennifer. At least I didn’t have to switch ... be for thrashing about even more, trying to consolidate the least awful

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  price of the same amount that MITechnology students pay for their degrees ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  look forward to. There’s still a ton I don’t have the answers for, like whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... apples. They’re just okay. It’s really all for the opportunity to frolic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... /what class?). For me, this gave me a useful chance to not only explore the ... already knew how to do things when they were easy for me, but I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... the opening ceremony for NACAC. NACAC is deisgned to promote dialogue ... professionals. "NACAC is not for sale" became the mantra. We'll see. Woke up

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook ... heard from their schools about what to bring for the initiation, but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I ... , then we also have to undergo some training in exchange for the free food ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  you to whoever read my application for seeing past my blunder. I swear I ... to be that kid recklessly hot gluing things together again. Lucky for ... Metropolis Makerspace! I learned how to 3D print and lasercut something for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... ’m applying for. MSc’s and MA’s in Europe tend to have course lists, so you can ... [/caption] So for all these reasons I chose to prioritize universities within

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... information for various teams at the company, so I got to learn a lot about cool ... for that"]understand.[/annotation] What I’m trying to understand, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  . He reached for her one last time. She thought to slap him as his hands ... mass of toilet paper as people tried to hit every performer for every ... ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a ... goes on, it becomes more and more important for interested freshmen to stick with a fraternity because basically there is no way for us to get to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008