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  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am ... , which is probably illegal, so please, don't do that to me.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... this book given that i'm only fifty pages in, but wow, its prose is ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close ... date a few weeks into MIT is difficult. this means that your social

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... school. Every single person in Maine is apparently much better than I am at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  make art is now a luxury. I recently told someone that I ‘paint a lot ... claustrophobia, a sense that if I don’t make something I can’t go on. Art is a ... as leaving a painting like that is physically painful, there’s a knot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go ... was super wholesome and endearing—I love that we came together to do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... Junior year that is substituted for a thesis (# of units = projected # of ... my game. My friend Shaye is a senior in Earth, Atmospheric, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... letters into the mix? I remember as a freshman being told that courses with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  bike trip is 60 miles each way? I did not know that until after I had ... morning at 6 AM I'm leaving on a fast train for my beloved hometown, that ... excruciating pain I've ever experienced in my mortal life Anyway, that's my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... (now that I think about it, that's actually a lot we learned ;-;) I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  that’s what I find so compelling in other people, too. Reckless curiosity ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade ... people here but i don't think it is just that. here are some thoughts on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... overwhelmed, yes, but I was also unhappy. I learned a lot that semester. I ... .[/annotation] I learned that I did not want to be a computer scientist, that I did

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  today is the first day of classes, I guess it's a good thing that I ... now that my schedule is really wacky, I'll be updating more often! (I ... hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  reason I see the ones I do so often is because they live in my building ... forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  ’s only for a day). Anyway, the point is that I signed up for entirely too ... thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the ... is going to be awesome. Right now, though, I'm still in training - all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  don't normally do on my blog. I'd like to ask you all to do me a big ... that data, I knew it was more than worth my while to write up a short ... " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  I had three tests in a row, plus a problem set due that same Thursday ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first ... pledged at a fraternity, my teachers' surprise when they heard that I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  is a ranked hockey player in the US). And my son discovered that while ... diverse abilities and strengths do well in all of them? The answer is that ... many different contexts), I feel your concern in this regards is a bit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005