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

  

  the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time ... name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  Strawberry Blonde. Notice the enthusiasm is still present. 4. Dog, The: lunch ... " in particular are the people who build restaurants in the MIT Student Center) to build an In-N-Out, which in my humble opinion is a VERY SAD

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  . Los Angeles is filled with murals sprawling over twenty-story-tall brick ... moment is worth giving yourself over to, so is the passage of time. I live ... several student-run, off-campus residences that some MIT students choose to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  This is a guest post by Sara M. '24, our lovely dorm VP, who did a ... return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... September 6th, the day before classes began.    This is the first fall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  . But seeing the way that the MIT DPhiE chapter is at the forefront of ... it is just as exciting as it sounds. 2) Classes start tomorrow. And I ... . The house is alive with chatter and laughter and excitement and it makes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  is becoming MIT again, or so the upperclassmen say, and I feel like ... like toads."]story.[/annotation] The back yard is still mostly weeds ... ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... I had other MIT around to collaborate with. I remember my mom choking ... us a flexible move-out date. bLeSs tHe HoUsInG gOdS. Our host is

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  character part in an Assassins' Guild game. The Guild is an MIT live ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  science class I've taken at MIT that is not review. 5.112 (Intro Chem) last ... concept is introduced, and the cycle starts again. This class is making ... switch lanes or else you miss your exit. In contrast, 18.02 is a rural

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink ... which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT student. The 2.009 Prototype Launch is the final presentation for one of ... homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I ... that something is wrong, that the narrator’s own model of their world is ... denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  feelings. I felt very old. Concretely, this is simply untrue… I’m 19, which, I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... differently. Arkansas is many things, the most obvious being beautiful. I forgot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... mechanic is surprisingly difficult. Also, we had to keep borrowing can ... it's been great for those days when bread is suddenly the most

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  , and human is one of my biggest goals when I’m traveling on behalf of MIT ... ,[/annotation] I was accepted into MIT early action. I cried on the phone with my ... each other, but with MIT upperclassmen, and Institute staff members. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  conference is happening all weekend. check out the livestream at ... citizens can understand how their data is being used. MALIKA SAADA SAAR ... . she also talked about how racism is complex and systematic; it's not a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... -of-year" rankings, though, is that every major magazine/newspaper always releases them

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024