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  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... make it almost cost-free. After I explained the logistics to my parents ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... propose a way to spend Simmons funds. Sometimes it’s for things like ... ="94970" /] I made a proposal at the last house meeting to buy a drum set for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about ... active combatants who had a swell time scouring the web for annoyances to ... other people. The end purpose is to provide data for researchers about how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... has to be mentally prepared for that when visiting a modern art museum ... decide to look them up; they will not leave your head for a long time. Duh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me ... 've been traveling for 16 hours. I credit my consciousness to the hour ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my ... , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for the cost of a new pair of shoes. And I think it’s more than fair to say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI ... that long for me to be notified that I was placed for the program as a ... interning at was closed for part of the summer, meaning I would have to come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  've really learned at MIT, or if I've only learned how to ask for help. I walk ... . I've been learning to be okay with my mediocrity and I think for the ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... to a global pandemic, our dorm is being renovated for two years, and we ... for a community to be preserved? Ignoring the resoundingly obvious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... needs to be censored for language, so I'll just paraphrase and say that ... MIT it's actually psychologically impossible for me to turn down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  to set a mood for the gallery, foam placards holding descriptions under ... for other interesting displays, and don’t be afraid to get ... involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  —like trading your morning walk to the barn for a crowded hustle to the Kendall ... over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season ... to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  .. The next morning, we piled into cars for a field trip to Green Bank ... more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... straight face, I asked Jenn to go inside and get the sheet off the bed so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... we're all back on land, all danced out, and ready to push through to ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... knock on the glass--you don't have to open the door for them in this case ... anything extra for MIT phones to receive outside calls, and the problem was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  inaccuracies, the ghost doesn't have to be blue in order for the PacMan to chase ... the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... 's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008