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  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... ’s become an annual tradition over the past three years. There was the end of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... I met David France, one of the other founders of the campaign. At some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made ... scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the ... very little time. By the end of every lecture, you probably have four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  a copy of our correspondence: Do you believe what students put on the ... profiles as part of the admissions process, but do you know of any schools who do check students' Facebook profiles? Off the top of my head, no

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  Rather than write a real blog entry, I instead urge you to consider the following: An MIT surveyor came upon the gates of Hell, He looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Jo-Jo Update

  

  Chang '03 advanced to the Semi-Final round but, sadly, did not win. (The winner was the former captain of the New England Patriots Cheerleading squad) Joanne did win the preliminary Group A talent competition. Way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  . :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... yellows and oranges, MIT has shed the appearance of normal university and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of ... River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... probably assuages the pain of full-body checking, which might be one reason ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the ... harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  . Weekdays are a blur of work and socialization, with lines between the two ... nights of no sleep. Everything is shockingly clear in those hours, yet the ... don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... world, and the feeling of making something that gets used around the world ... touch with some of my friends who I met at the other Cambridge 🇬🇧

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008