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• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  turned in on Monday, a final project for advisory on Tuesday, short story ... on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of ... haven't even begun. I've taken to running for an hour and then being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... visiting my mom's class (she's a fifth-grade teacher in the district) for ... him for me. Questions answered: 1. Shen asked I'm pretty interested in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a ... , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more ... ."]Putzen fine dining,[/annotation] I attempted to fry an egg in the Putz kitchen

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... impressive. academics wise i graduated 3rd in my class and i've got an ... as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library ... advice on how to write an essay for one of her students. here is what I ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  most of the discussion, given that I had only been in an MIT dorm for ... outside the door begging for an entrance.   MIT is so special ... my housing choices for the lottery. I was placed in Senior House, which

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... for cars as possible. Instead we will ride bikes! We do in fact ride

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the ... -Eye-Tee? Like the MIT in Cambridge?" "Yeah." "Wow, an art student at MIT. Well

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not ... ’t stand the taste of water that’s been sitting in a metal container for too ... care of the people in my life.  For so long, I have also wanted to do as

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  I’m there in the morning and wake up my brain for my class starting ... previous credit coming in for 8.01 and 8.02, this class definitely feels more ... well. In this half hour, I normally sit around and wait for the 3

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... all my notes and scribbles for my difficult coding classes. In reality ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... missed. I can't explain it in words, but I feel my self echo back an image ... question I've been wrestling with for my whole life (in one sense) and/or for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase ... the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  accomplishment in a video game. -An awesome lab -A picture you feel best embodies ... 's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of ... hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... , including bloggers, will be participating in the hunt, which begins at noon in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  , in an era in which we have a female president and a female running as a ... once again. It was changed for the first time in 2002). Anyway ... that people would complain about defying tradition in previous years

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the ... it an honor. And unlike in high school, where there are a lot of other ... yet, or that the deadline to officially register for your UROP in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008