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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... around us: to our right, a slightly awkward pair (perhaps on a first date

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... sources tell me that D residents have a similar vibe to B and F, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who ... submit entirely to ESG, you don't have to. It's a good way to get to know a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... time. One that we applied to was a combined middle and high school with a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  . Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time... MY LOVE LETTER TO ... note='this is me speaking to myself lmfao']let’s calm down a little bit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... ? Can a civilization be healed? Can damage to hateful souls--the rot that ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to ... sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the ... she had been sitting. There was new grease to pick up, a new stench to ... bedbugs’ metallic hum flattened to a shrill, discordant buzz. In the kitchen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself ... lost, in a world where others don't seem to be. feeling reluctant to open

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... : CJ: The post also includes a form to submit guesses, and a leaderboard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  to Shaw's to buy sorbet On a side note, I am very excited to add this ... As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  discovered we have a trash chute. I took my dinner up to my room just so I ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can ... Study Guide". A good way to go about taking these is probably taking a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  disciples to curse the physical laws restricting them to a single location at a given time. Of course, the most hardcore physics geeks attempt to ... their fellow mortals, only get to attend a fraction of the events they

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009