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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  life he loves the most. I have trouble conveying just how perfect the ... all things, but it was probably the best day of my life. There are a ... master's and PhD as well.) So married life is great, lab life is great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember ... you know the exact time and date that a potentially life ... scheme of things that is your life, your undergraduate college experience

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you’ve never…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually, there’s so many cool — FROSH: isn’t that the …you know … clothing optional … dorm?…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  true, it doesn’t represent all of life here - psets are hard, but they ... , this post is about having fun and not taking life too seriously. Conner ... my life. I have yet to regret that decision. The movie was incredible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life ... work harder than I ever could before and do great things with my life. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  starting materials from changing into products. Life has parallels with ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A ... next test.)   Sam’s life after the blogs I just read Ben's post

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into space with their own homemade rocket (from…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I’ve been working all week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  (Second Life) International development AAAS fellow at USAID (UMass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... , that there won’t be another time of my life that’ll be like this, once

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  preparing to miss it, I know I was right. Big transitions in life aren’t only ... their apartments, or coming back for certain events to talk about life ... me. I'm excited for bigger, broader parts of my life too. Everywhere I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find what I want to do with my life, how will I go about achieving it? Will I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  thought about life. I thought about space, politics, and the new vegan place ... like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than ... , overlap each other, blot out the sun, and consume my entire life for a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... life's purpose. Here's an excerpt from my journal on that night: "And

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015