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  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4 ... telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... surreal weekend. It was my first time in the South, if we don’t count Los

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  begin with.  I wasn’t planning on buying anything in particular, but then ... song is so well written and there’s so much raw emotion in it. I would ... of them was in my hands, so I had to buy it. I’m not sure what I’ll do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Outstanding Bloggership (not in that order): I would randomly call a random ... I would include him in my project, which would immediately be ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  seat in our car. i would sit in the backseat and obsessively watch the ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... lecture was the only circumstance in which he would be admitted to MIT ... .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  particularly difficult during the month of December. Anything I can't buy in ... applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in ... planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used ... stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  , unsurprisingly, was dormed in Random. I kind of knew I would be placed in Random ... panic.[/annotation] Would it be like a sorority? I don't want to live in a ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  coconut curry flatbread. Although in retrospect, I think it would have ... the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... event was so incredibly nice. "I'm here because making friends in your ... better at crocheting. I would come home from a long day at my UROP

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... Street in historic Old Port. I caught lunch just a few steps away at Mim ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  of confidence which I knew working in tech would bring.  # The last ... ’ in it would reject, we want.” I’d passed a lot of magazines with the ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022