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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... here are some of those who responded to me. Michael C '16 Here in Dallas ... ’s surface. Truly a magical experience that you have to see in person. (Minor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  get to experience two days-in-the-life of one, and one in Switzerland ... horizontal hierarchy and whitespace in our arrangements. Pretty cool. Got to ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  latter late, I get to live in my undergraduate dorm for two extra semesters ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each ... in the world wouldn't do you any good, if you didn't know how to look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... 're starting to get busier… you get used to big things fast in China, and you get ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... in physics party pad. We used all this space to watch TV vigorously and ... interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just — literally just — in time for my flight to Denver and 2 hour-long midnight uber ... the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... walked to 7-11 in the biting cold like only a crazy person should. With ... you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; exercise I took Yoga last year so I could get closer to knocking out the PE

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  myself and hid alone in my room. But then my mom and sister came to visit ... adventure to adopt this little creature that emits joy and happiness in every ... inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out ... of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... I get thrown out into the cold, cold world graduate I’ll be completely

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... using Python and MATLAB. The awesome description: We get to build virtual ... everyone in the class and he's gonna cold-call you and make you think on your

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon ... just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I ... until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... dance shows coming up this semester that I'm going to be participating in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have