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  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... weeks. And now here we are. Welcome to the Thoughts of Taylor

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time ... finals week.  My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most ... really only showed up to take pictures, but I made the mistake of going on

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... Center where we waited patiently for the strike of midnight when we'd be able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  fire by the mouth of the quarry. Some people heated up food and roasted ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... .                The above are my two favorite photos of this blog post. They are from ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice president of the entire Dormitory Council, which are certainly not small

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my ... this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first ... /halls of their preference on first come first serve basis?for example if the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... course, the most valuable part of the experience was meeting future ... about such a rich campus culture together. The book of events also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... Lebowski," "Almost Famous") stole the show as Gust Avrakotos, one of the few

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  for the first time, and filling out that neat little form listing all of my classes for the coming semester. I remember that first day of ... remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the core themes of the class: [carousel image1="115118" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I-made-the ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My ... . I'm an official MIT freshman now, a proud member of the Class of 2011 - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007