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

  

  dances! All you have to do is move to the music." No. Not me. I'm the ... -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right ... , something that I never anticipated happening. Ever. I'm on a boat, I'm on a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a ... when you sit in a wheelie chair without any self-control. That said, the ... yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn ... : Yeah, I did that. I got my last grade in today. (MIT grades go up on the ... themselves necessary, I guess.) 3. Mike asked, At MIT, do you have to do a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  phone didn't do it justice. I can't compress everything that was to a 1080 ... ."]Speedball[/annotation]? I bet you don’t know who that is. Or [annotation note="After getting ... listening to music. Is that bad? I don’t know. I just know that I’d rather not

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... directorial staff that Captain Von Trapp was a hippie in my interpretation. So ... off my hair. Then I had her sweep it up and put it in a Zip-Loc bag

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  , cheaper, faster...I miss Anna's now that I'm in ohio and all I have is ... to you lickety split." I might also add that the MIT ID # is a nine ... research in high school. I hope, though, that you're doing the research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... , feeling that they “can’t do” math, and not trying as hard in subsequent classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I’m enjoying it so far, and I have to admit that it is a good feeling when your ... write about a topic that we should know a lot about: our classes. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an ... since everyone is making such a big deal about immigration, that Latino

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  no poet. In fact, I am a very poor poet. I would never be sharing any ... problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... hybridization, love I have a gift for spatial work; who knew? I hope that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  I phrased this in a way that is obviously sarcastic, since I feel like ... in a way that is tailored to what students feel will best help them ... , Senior House is one of the most inexpensive dorms to live in and has a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  so that I see all of my classmates’ faces, a few years younger. I see ... , a communication-intensive class I took this past spring where we have a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  I used the Lagrangian on a test in the vain hope that this would amuse ... Tan novel ever written. This is just a complex way of saying that I ... afternoon, which meant that I was starting to feel a strong natural urge to do

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I ... password, just to confirm that I remember them." So, I put in my information ... morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams

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

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  tells you what to do after that. I was floating around in a swamp swimming ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... forever? Well, another thing I realized is that I don't have to do anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  consider your upcoming summer: *Is there something that I like to do and ... that you must do a summer program, all the same. The key is to do ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way ... do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of ... at 20, i’ve learned that staying kind is far more productive to myself

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  about the world that is intrinsic to physics." Goodman enrolled in the ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... class a cool place. In recognition, he's been selected as the New Jersey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005