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• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... child to the pika alumni trust fund and spending one fine weekend in early

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... reform debate prior to this summer (and I'm still learning). Growing up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... particularly stunning occasions come to mind: -As part of the Discover

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... disillusionment, even after you pack your suitcases to the acceptable airline limit and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... , he rubbed his sleepy eyes and began to stand up. "Where's your concert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  Responses to comments: Aaron said: Actually, Anna Lucia was killed off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... involved. We upperclassmen forget sometimes that it's not crystal-clear to ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... this semester has gone to recovering my study skills... I fully empathize

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have ... . Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of ... of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... -generated writing doesn’t bother me, and if somebody were to create a story generated

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note ... -y meetings, and I've introduced different friend groups to each other and had

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022