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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  entire savings to make bail after being taken in for “looking suspicious ... of people of color, I need to spend as much time as I can in high ... . Nevertheless, I smile when I see my younger siblings push to make their place in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot[/annotation]to ... to carry around its physical weight, and can probably finish it in ... 't feel like every book I read has to be amazing or else my time is wasted

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  forward a bit and we saw the small cavity she made in the sand to drop her ... edit the brightness in post, but it's still pretty hard to see because we ... with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  city, but if you walk across one short bridge you're right in Boston. Or ... was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first ... , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... mouse immunology lab that works with proteins in the cytoskeleton to see ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  . In 2011, two weeks after my graduation, I traveled to Costa Rica where ... cure cancer" or "Most-likely to be senator" or even "Most-likely to be ... courage and energy to continue to swim. Looking back, it wasn't the pain or

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... , to chat about our mutual interest in astronomy outreach and how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns ... proved quite the opposite. My camera roll continued to grow with zoomed-in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz ... and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action ... shown to wear yellow to indicate his loyalty to Olga and Louis - in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  me, so I'm sticking with that title. I mean, it's not on my resume or ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... e d ! ! ! ! 8) Allan: I went to a freind's housewarming, and in true introverted fashion, quickly met someone to talk to while we began partaking in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  blood in the sky. From the Man in the Moon, to the embittered savant ... coming together to celebrate the little joys and nerdy coincidences in this ... recommend that you try logging in now to make sure it goes smoothly! If you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... ... ...and suddenly decided to rearrange my room in conjunction with frequent ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely

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

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... everybody could get a 100% or something, so people take it upon themselves to ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  assassination of McKinley in 1901 were they asked to protect the president. It ... Homeland Security was founded (in response to 9/11). Blue Hall, the ... first president born in the United States and the only president to speak

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

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