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• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning of the week. 3. I painted a bunch of murals. Actually, the time expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when nothing was more satisfying than the mouth-drying sodium-shock of defrosted

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we ... reached the first of 75 overlooks; Raphael (the driver) pulled our car off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... the [annotation note="Short for “Registry of Motor Vehicles”, which is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false ... it multiple times before the day of this story. I was nine and grew up ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  day wait.   *static---commercial break* Be the life of your ... it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical post I could come up with. Credit where credit's due, the idea for this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Here are some pictures from the Undergraduate Female Leadership Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are ... lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... all of the freshmen here. Aw, why isn't anybody else excited? It's not ... .005 (thermal fluids) we had our most difficult lecture of the entire year

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... Brisson with the support of Jacopo Buongiorno and Gerald Wilson, Bryan will ... . Basically, the goal of the class is to design a robot to accomplish certain

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love ... . That sense of resignation—not even attempting to cross the abyss—Rooney is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ... myself and two of the grad students working in civic. we'd gotten together at the beginning of the summer to read and discuss interesting papers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects, the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most seemingly boring things some of the most fun things ever. Now the following

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  This is Akash: Akash is the president of the Class of 2009 (like ... all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005