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

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end of the trottoir and have to wait a minute for your train, or for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth ... hard drive crashed. I'm a Mac user now. I need to find a way to acquire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep ... the view and instead had to lock in on my final projects. However, in a ... I was supposed to read, and then Lauren and I went for a walk and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... ,[/annotation] and here’s what I’ve been up to instead: I became a blogger ... tables have turned."]birthday[/annotation] Went to a free outdoor concert

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  him a few days ago, and Langer Lab used some of its massive budget to throw a celebratory champagne party.  Which I was not invited to.  Sad ... taking MIT's Intro to Python class.  There's also a lot of non

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  classroom to real-time projects that have a significant impact on communities ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture ... do not have to walk more than a stone's throw away. Our system also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... wanted out of my life. I have a lot of other work to complete this summer ... - so I wanted to be on a functional adult 9-5 schedule. Seattle is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... was really nice: I got to see familiar buildings from a different angle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... , giving me a hug and leaving to go do whatever small, red block he’s got

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot recently about making art.  Painting used to be an ... changing. I’m a messy painter, or at least… I used to be. The last time I ... have an explicit desire to spend 8 hours staring at a photo of plums, but

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

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC ... to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... students seemed to have a lot of control over their own lives. I liked that ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far ... hopefully green and equitable), and how to develop a political program that

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021