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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  Christopher Nolan movie ever, but knowing how volatile my friends are when it ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  blogged about it, but don’t tell my future employers, OK? I’ve thought long ... parents at least twice a week and take my garbage out when it got full. Ha ... attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  part of it has been learning how to be an adult and take care of myself ... enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  --they gave an ipad to a monkey to see how well it could play games. And then ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... will candidly admit - we may not be the most well-prepared when it comes ... grandmother tells me stories of how she evacuated from China with my grandfather

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  also want to evaluate my choice based on how it will impact others and ... at night, and how much bigger the sky is when you can see it touch the ... , I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  up how long it would take to bike the 20 miles home. 2 hours. That ... from that experience, it’s how to keep pushing up hills. Lately I’ve been ... Wish I could explain it better --- Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  isn't really losing at all, is it? At least that's how I think of it ... Okay, so it's like this, right. Pictures and backlogged entries are ... 'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... ? Well, actually I didn't live far from Chicago, so it wasn't as bad as I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  MIT was 3 hours long. I sent a photography portfolio and a supplemental ... wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a ... 're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  rockin' good time... don't miss it! If you like rock, punk, reggae, ska ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There ... Jones (check out the picture of Ben rocking-->)! Come and see how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog ... they're good ones. It's a pretty sweet deal. Next week, LSC will present ... year, the first being this past IAP; I described it at the end of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long ... real science. I had forgotten just how awesome chemistry is. And the best ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help ... enthralled by one of the most boring attractions at the park. At first, it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  underarms say: forget about it. It does feel good to be so sore. I obviously ... , coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... before noon; I figured that even though classes start at ten past, it would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  how I imagined it: 24 hours straight of hundreds of people huddled ... minutes after it was announced. So, I made a script that would text me an alert as soon as the next round of tickets were announced. A week later it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016