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  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  snowed! This is the front court of Emmanuel College in snow, with a snowman ... [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... 's very therapeutic. One ball. This is fine. Then, in some wave of magical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  , because faith is something that is very much within a person. It is in the ... is unfortunately sort of a general expectation of old white men in the ... is still mostly men. I would love to spend a day in her shoes (and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... PTA sponsored an "Author Day" at my school. They invited a children's book author to speak, and donated a copy of one of his books to all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both ... the author of Fight Club, of which there is now a children’s version ... fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... in a rigorous writing workshop with hard deadlines and brutal (and ... not I'd be interested in teaching a course on comic books, I jumped at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  in East Campus, First East has a FFT (Free Food Table). Anything on the table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... since his freshman year and is now a staff member, which means that he has ... Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... 'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  perfect circle; later he would prove his actual talent in the form of a ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  running around a lab in the dark chasing a loose bird.” When she is ... ! On a final note, she is getting a minor in French and loves the subject ... , has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the great things about MIT is its location. You're in this hub of great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern ... -Homeric civilization in Greece, before city-states, which was discovered by a German guy ... turned in on Monday, a final project for advisory on Tuesday, short story

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  tube in December, a huge envelope in March, and a bigger envelope in May ... ”, anybody? Anybody at all? Be a bigger band geek!). Every dorm is card access ... . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  no avail. As is standard procedure in Makerlodge, I submitted a safety ... to find [annotation note="the building Makerlodge is in, the Deep, another maker space, is in building 37"]building 6C,[/annotation] which is

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  is: Basically, you get a crash course in robotics and controls, and ... that to which it was accustomed...–is always lived (in a certain fashion ... This semester, in MIT terms, is “chill.” With only one technical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... things left to do during the next two weeks. I came in with a list of goals

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  few hours: read a chapter from Orbital by Samantha Harvey which is ... crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a ... class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025