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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being ... Levitt and a small group of undergrads. AHHHH as I am writing this I just

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... new fire that would once again light the city. Anyway, I digress. Here ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  except in case of emerency, I'm not too discriminating. Since I was, you ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  lacked the common sense to know bottles go in the trash can. i take back my ... another 19 hours on top of the 9 i already suffered. i'm waiting in line for ... I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I ... ’t.  This summer I lived in a house with seven other MIT sophomores, all of us ... on campus. In March of 2020 I was impatient for REX.  I’m sitting in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter ... brother is way taller than I am. I spent the first few days of Spring Break

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... , but I know that there will be many more times when I can see awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in ... of the problem was that it put the files in a place I didn't expect ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  while I’ve been in school because all three of these parts can continue to ... lead to one of two cases as far as I can tell: 1) I become just ~eh~ in ... syndrome. I’ve just sort of, grown around this pest I can’t get rid of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of ... hybrid worksession, which was in fact mostly virtual except i was one of ... forgot about it so i waited in porter for like twenty minutes. then one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... -computer interaction conference) at the end of April in Montreal! I’m super excited

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  of my time. There's a time I can recall Four years old and three ... I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since ... of doctors and nurses and I am afraid to talk to them. But there's a ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J ... , and lonely winters; of haunting beauty found in unexpected places; and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to ... three months. I've lived in Burton Conner since freshman year. BC ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... some ways, the end of this semester has been bittersweet. I have 3 ... our goodbyes and promises of keeping in touch and future reunions, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  District (where I buy hair dye when I put green streaks in my hair every so ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt ... Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005