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  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... rainwater hasn't already. The warm days of summer have already breathed their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me me, have always made me me. One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... was tired, I don't regret a second of it.  I love learning more about ... to shanti-town building and more!  Here are some pictures of our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... student office. About half an hour later, I found more pictures of Raphael: under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A ... kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still a bloop nonetheless, and I went about the rest of my week unaffected

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... wanted to do during the school year, without the weight of "oh why am I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... ask Fodor? Has anybody ever read any of Fodor's stuff?) The way I see

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of ... to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... shifted my bedtime to 7am, but it's never led to an absence of fun. (This

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... fair share of building since I've gotten here (plastic bottle pirate ship, 4 robots, an Olmec, etc) but all of that used skills that I really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009