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• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities to travel globally, but while it's not summer or IAP, local ... 'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the shop to see if Donna and Donald were still there, and not only were ... things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... know how many times I got recognized during that weekend? Zero. Once

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished ... has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the

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

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so weak and feverish that I dragged myself over to MIT Medical to have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... included not only key members of MIT's faculty and administration, but 63 (by

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... . Why not add another adventure to my repertoire? "Alright, I'm in!" At ... during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  to be hosed trying to prove that 1+1 does not equal the set of ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my ... this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  position a year ago, and I found that it was best not to let the college ... and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... how classes and activities are going. Some of our most recent artistic

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... , so if that doesn’t tell you how trendy of an event this was, I don

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  grass. That’s how I got a fifth of Mathcamp to dress up as wizards and ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not wrong. But everyone can choose exactly how much and what type of math they

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  , so I will not attempt to decode it. When referring to a Course 6 class ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  how AWESOME we are! Sadly, it all had to come to an end and we were ... (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  spreadsheet and described how MIT was portrayed and its accuracy to the real ... never expected to have an opportunity like this, especially not at a ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... lecture does not escape me. 3-5 PM - 8.02. The concepts related to ... MIT, to study like nothing else. Antonym: to punt, or not do work

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out ... you'll be hooked. Promise. I mean, it's Italian pop music! What's not to ... took here my first semester was 21F.716, Introduction to Contemporary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  . Not going to lie, I was a little jealous. Anyways, the idea behind ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  you. But she's not. She's like your computer when you try to play Elder ... ! It's not everday you get to meet a blogger My favorite A Phi lady ... miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005