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  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of ... spring and summer were full of striking moments when i made big

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  extension of email purgatory, except in this case I read 115 pages and write a ... ’t always enjoy working in pset groups and b) I spend a lot of time working. I ... I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... yet. We'll know when they do. Already, I'm aware of how ensconced in my ... few weeks since career fair ended). Many of us can't wait to dig in on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... 't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the ... if there are that many sensations in the world that can compare to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... timid. I couldn’t even speak in front of a class of second graders. I was ... --almost exclusively failed, in fact--that I am not even a little bit scared of public

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  ...but I mean that in a good way. It's all in the name of education, right ... opinion, this diversity is one of MIT's greatest strengths. Although I could probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  done his magic in my head, but I feel like some parts of calculus had ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  with the shop guys in Pappalardo (where we build out 2.007 robots.) I ... , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... still have shades of MIT that going to MIT on Zoom does not. I can still ... campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this ... CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... : When I tell my friends I live in EC, most of them say, "Wow I didn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several ... important. straight bottom of the foot is not good. you can see in the next ... two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect ... yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an IgNobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers ... thought process I like to walk myself through, but in light of the most ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... , having friends that i can rely on during emergencies, etc.) and because of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... jobs, I made myself a list, mcgann, with madmatt as the only member of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  four years of Latin in high school -- but clearly I am not as witty as I ... experience of many MIT athletes. (In high school, I personally was always the ... -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006