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  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  .. The next morning, we piled into cars for a field trip to Green Bank ... -band feedhorn. Oh, wait. It is a beautiful thing to touch the structure that ... , hike up to a summit, camp overnight, drive to Harrisonburg and eat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get ... you could, y'know, take a three-and-a-half hour car ride to New

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana ... clicking out. In many ways, I’ve been desensitized to my own past in a way ... how to support myself. A lot of these workshops make sexual assault

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know ... were a great bonding experience. also, on the way back to our dorm, one ... annoying for a few reasons; namely, having to wake up around 9 am, and having

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... ? Maybe I'm not allowed to tell stories about Qiaochu any more since he's a ... to do. This means that doing something without a massive impact (but

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect ... food at the CPW festival, which was just a taste for what was to come ... .01 Intro to EECS, so a group of girls and I went to go check it out: They

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in each hand), so I'm going to try and demystify the process a little. The ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit ... point I'm getting to here is that this argument is clearly a far cry from ... some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but ... , apparently. I presented Akash with a loaf of white bread, and he went to work ... to a showing of the new movie!" This is actually what he said. I take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  sailing beaver, a pistol beaver, and a fencing beaver, to represent the four P.E. classes needed to obtain a Pirate’s License at MIT.  Additionally, we included a night sky motif across the ring as a nod to how, like

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog ... it's difficult to detach myself from what I make. I pour a bit of my ... up to me being a bad writer, bad programmer, bad puzzle author. One of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The ... some point, I felt a presence, and looked up to find Frank Wilczek

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a ... we left I wanted to get a vid of me snowboarding down so I did like my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  and loss we would feel if there were to be a mass exodus from campus or ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat ... slowed to a crawl. With each passing minute, it felt more and more like I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  Joon is at coding, but it's cool to have complete agency over a project ... project was creating a *moodboard* to determine the color scheme, which is a ... program that allows you to 'play' a guitar using a LeapMotion, which is a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was ... decided to put our 15 пњљ«® NRW Bundesland ticket to good use and take a ... cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  to the reader). I'm struggling to keep my brain from blowing a fuse and ... out of a spoon using a bowl. It's an unpleasant way to feel right now ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... 'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It ... good response to a similar question, so I searched through the archives

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007