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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... Square with my friend Moctar F. '22. It was the first time I has been to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ! Suggestions welcome--I’d actually like to have way more than 10 books, maybe ... Chinua Achebe Honorable Mentions     Things I managed to read ... Diaz (Summer ‘14) (I read this before I came to MIT and it made me want

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it ... and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

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

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... time to dress myself and perform my morning rituals (namely brushing my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... plum sauce, because I’m allergic to cranberries, and farina cake after a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... I happened to find myself looking at - OH, WAIT! He just brought up ... physics classes and become exposed to new mathematical techniques and ideas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... Admissions. But what we mean by match - and what match means to you - isn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very ... been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... Station and we headed over to campus to get all registered. The highlight

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to ... I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006