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  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... and cold afternoon but the feeling of liberation from classwork kept the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the ... time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25 ... instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses ... , the “score” is determined by word2vec, a cool way of quantifying the ... guesses : o ) Perhaps one of the reasons that I like Semantle so much

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... captured the essence of what motivated me, what I said above, what I couldn

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  the maze of corridors and first hearing about "the Infinite." And, of course, I still remember the chirping crosswalk in front of 77 Mass Ave. Fast forward to 2007. I am standing underneath the shadow of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... of knowledge of the game. I've been watching a full game almost every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  with the world https://youtu.be/-tKgY5Ye-ak?t=373 livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital ... on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the ... the parts of you that are not busy with eigenvalues and electron

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you ... Mattress Dominoes? This video will give you the gist of it. They claim it's a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... , which I found basically unwatchable despite the presence of Xena and the ... thanks to the combined efforts of Course X, Rob and Amber, Family Edition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked ... images of injuries requiring the use of these resources often danced in ... out of the bay. Too bad it didn't move. It whimpered feebly and then

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the ... -long "recitation," where he clarifies and expands upon some of the concepts we were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008