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  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  the concert at the Hatch Shell. The crowd gathers along the banks of the ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day ... Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note ... almost all of our supplies. After those forty minutes at Trader Joe’s, we ... there were another 36 on hand), boiling 12 packets of udon all at the same

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were ... education MIT provides. Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my ... factors at MIT. If you're not yet convinced of that, let me present you with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... packing up my stuff at the end of sophomore year, before heading abroad, I ... abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  .005 (elements of software construction), my favorite class at MIT (tied with ... blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  So you know how cars sit at stoplights with their all their blinkers flashing at different times and then for one moment they're all flashing at the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... of my weekly schedule instantly popped out at me: Weekdays 7

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... real science true method of relaxation (source: none). At the bottom of ... -speaking-animal-gods-that-is-at-one-point-also-ruled-by-a-bunch-of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  three divas perform at different times during the song? For the rest of ... of Middle East Biology Principles of Macroeconomics Religious ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing.). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  go to bed at 2:03 AM and wake up at 9:10 AM. Of course, my sleeping ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  felt here at MIT and the lounge was just one of the many reasons. At a ... heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  left under the auspices of lab scientists at MIT's world ... by none other than my floor (Loop). At Random, each floor consists of ... machines at Random get fixed. Stay tuned for the story of my four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday ... a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I made the most of my time by studying for my neuroanatomy exam, but I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006