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• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help, in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  all over campus. Living at East Campus, said basements are easily ... join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the ... ) with helpful sustenance in the form of frozen novelties. Yes, folks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  ways, the universe puts me in a weird situation (casually living blocks ... exact location or have a poster of her on my wall, but just underneath ... .[/annotation]What's my favorite movie? Zendaya. Well, Zendaya is in Boston on and off

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  This summer, I lived with some other sophomores from my living ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... commit. Five of us signed on, but two others couldn't promise anything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... explore, I highly recommend it! Boston is one of the most lively cities I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... traipsing through puddles of psets, EMT drills, writer's block, dance, and ... people on various occasions. I inform myself of this fact quite frequently

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  characters’ daily lives it’s a lot easier to fill in the gaps. On a TV show ... became, you know, focused on the domestic lives of characters, obviously ... online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... Time, we will email all students on our wait list their admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  was basic knowledge on differentiation and integration. I did some self ... developed all that we learn today. This is eye-opening since I’ve never really ... their derivations of what we learn today as differentiation. This dates

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  . We had heard little news after it faded away on the 10th. However, on ... -fair). Our club fair went out with a bang, early on, unfortunately crashing ... at the moment, especially while we are on[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal ... initiatives within both MIT and the broader community. On Monday, WAE hosted ... Red Bull staff, but aerobatics is evaluated by a panel of judges on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  . Today, there are people sailing on the river. Cross on the left side ... buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... : Arrived in Billings, Montana at 12:30 PM MST, on the same flight as Bowen ... (maybe - in order to digress, don't you have to be on topic in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  NBC News senior political reporter who goes on TV regularly, gets ... CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid ... on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex]\LaTeX[/latex]. And they’re all Paolo’s! That changes today. MIT exposes us to so many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya!) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends on Facebook. Everybody ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  Cambridge and Boston. MIT and Boston people are following the news on the ... It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  and a half years later. We still weren't sure about living on a "smoking ... he showed up on campus as a freshman, he was very different. Clean-cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005