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  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  , which isn’t at all a surprise to me. I spent 191 hours , which is 11 ... to them a lot during the hectic, unfamiliar first few weeks at MIT, and ... when familiar stories help me get through change. If I had to pick a non

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... sad), so a few MITWE members tried to get Ken Amis (our assistant ... lobby to receive a Brazilian tattoo… temporary, of course, and sanctioned

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  regret. i've been trying to tackle my classes with a new perspective ... [annotation note="8.01 = Physics 1 18.01A = Calculus 1 3.091 = Intro to Solid State Chemistry 21M.011 = Intro to Western Music"]8.01, 18.01A, 3.091, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a ... youth, veterans, and communities as a whole with resources to become self ... I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  or however long it takes to do as many repetitions of "A Whole New ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an ... About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thermos) and what to leave behind (record player, books, a little cactus I ... be quite as effective a happy-maker as I usually like to think it is. So here they are. My survival techniques. I plan to test them, and as a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  and then move on to our personal perspectives on sorority life. A Bit ... of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... ="Big: an initiated member who is paired with you to be a guide, mentor, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  was as good a time as any to have my first Boston Pops experience. I ... guarded by police, redirecting anybody without a "pass" to a dirt trail. I ... that there was a much shorter line to my left so I wandered over and sure

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  MIT tracking shows a missing component, please fax it to 617-687-9184. Note that ... .T.) Chain Reaction What is the F.A.T. Chain Reaction? Better to see it ... a link, which is then connected to another link and becomes one giant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  )! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... an externship, some will learn a language, some will do research, some will build a Stirling Engine, among the many options. A couple IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via Amtrak. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that when I'm on a train, I ... from NYC to Providence, I started reading Stone Butch Blues as a pdf on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  's up to y'all. Y'all the future." (28:01) This is just a snippet of a ... then takes it a step further, urging people, college kids especially, to ... Kanye West, a 42-year-old man with an estimated net worth of $240M to $1B

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT ... graduating class before I took a gap year) was supposed to have our Ring Delivery in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, Ring Delivery got pushed back a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024