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  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT ... what it all means!) But in many ways, I’m really not your “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . And four, I can finally kind of sort of walk (more like stumble) my way ... about four years old, my family and I got into a car accident in India. As ... sofas. But more or less, I had this confidence in my own wellness. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... Memorial Drive?" "Oh, no. I just moved. I live in 3 Ames Street now." "380 ... . One of the only things I remember from The Catcher in the Rye: What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... street fairs. My mom sat in my chair, and I on the floor, which is cement

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... detachment, you can still participate in ROTC at another school in the area ... in the program. You can find a lot more information about that at

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

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... favorite character in the novel. Still, I don't get what's up with all these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... : Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just ... hockey team were great fun, and every time I look at my Baker House ice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... got locked into a narrow tunnel vision in which I only valued the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM ... the summer as something to do when I was alone in my little New York

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members ... can add a different dimension to the college experience that I knew

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... calendar. I like checking off tasks in my bullet journal. I like my string ... -mail from Petey, and I excitedly turned to my friend in DPD saying "Oh my God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  Standing Exams in physics, chemistry, biology, and math (maybe? I can ... admits from Texas; I more or less got my wish, with a few Mainers thrown in :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters ... in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... .  I have this friend who, lately, will not stop replacing lyrics in ... find good links in huge articles. I wish I could tell you what articles

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I ... calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the phone so I could say, "Could you patch me through to the blimp

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  still acts. I don't think I have seen anything with him in it since "Road ... that the movies are "coming soon, in stereo." I think we should play a ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008