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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... the whole ordeal was the 25 hour odyssey it took to get from my hotel ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... technology to transmit knowledge across the world. While at the monastery, he

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was ... People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... narrowed it (haha, get it, ultimately) to JMS's Amazing Spider-Man run or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  get to school, when everyone is looking around at the different dorms ... , you will not get to do that. I say "unfortunately" because REX is what ... know, you get temped in a dorm, but if you don't like it, you can opt to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets ... together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... of my red hair. It's really strange being away from home and getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  painted the same colors. Yuki wanted to know why I was getting rid of the ... should get on that. Anyway, the point of this entry is the tables. I just wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  . I feel like I'm so close to getting this part done, and even though it ... times a week instead of four to get rid of extra steam. Aiden, Jordan ... , and get checked off. Once the packet is complete, we are free to leave

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... workers who could get us access to the mailboxes. Alan: This was progress ... . CJ: But where could we get $500? As much as I wanted to see this happen

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... might get to know them better.” Emerge aims to empower these girls ... : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... try and get rid of it, but it's hard to rub off. Talking to him made me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... out to amazing music. I ate free food. I got Chris M. to autograph my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  get faster, so I can get to the fun part of actually shaping the vessel ... pull the walls, I was struggling to get the clay up from the skirt of the ... , and glazed our pieces. They actually get fired twice: first, to go from

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  with social media themselves knows exactly how to get off every time they ... in my opinion a bit absurd it is okay to make mistakes like getting ... looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box ... , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022