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  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... Heianjingu garden in Kyoto as dark koi circled my feet, played with the tame ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  you with some other quotes from the train conductor. (on rounding a ... listening to: a kid arguing with an adult about a game they’re playing ... seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  companies do, and then for the rest of the time, you play board games, eat ... black shirt and head over to Kresge Auditorium. I signed up to usher for ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  for a final exam - how many nights I've wolfed down free platters of ... mega-sale, so it cost like $15 =p...by the way I'm such good friends with that bag now, having carried it with me to so many places this past

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  'll need to get steel wool at some point. It's a fun little game I play ... kept having HelloFresh ads with discounts for listeners so I eventually ... stories: 1. We discovered that rice bugs exist. Having eaten rice with

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

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for the few days following the wedding, I lived with my grandma in her ... (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  pork broth and topped with thin slices of (guess what) more pork ... endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  for you, and has a zero percent chance of coming with the bitter ... turning off the air conditioning you found for free in your dorm's storage ... Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  not mine) via Bump for the iPhone. (super cool app, we followed up with ... MIT alumni are dedicated to having as much nerdy geeky fun as they did ... -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  everything they wanted with no new interesting problems to play with. If they ... are stuck with nothing to show for their multi-billion-euro accelerator ... talk began with Dr. Nahn covering a history of the search for the Higgs

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  the dorm. For about a week, the pile is a free-for-all; any student can take anything they want from it, for free. After everyone's moved out of ... upperclassmen, even though I'm finished with my finals for freshman year, I'm not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  alumni addresses for updates, we had an addressing party. With a few dozen ... pitched for the hack, including a fortune teller box with a picture of ... Walker around 7 for a fun tradition called hockey awards, where the Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  student's obligations year-round."]for a while.[/annotation] and when i was ... cake with a macaron on top. it feels wonderfully decadent. calling it ... taqueria with a glowing neon sign that says "feed me tacos and tell me i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  from me, taking the rest of my life with it. For some holidays, my mom ... playing through my headphones, and I’m hit with the memory of all these ... relationship with my body for the better. I performed in drag in front of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  with pals. I also got to play with some dogs last week. Not bad. Anyway ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... you talk about Shirt Woot freely with EVERYONE YOU MEET?), I also miss

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  MIT was four years of stress with spurts of fun scattered somewhere in ... working closely with MIT Admissions to help organize CP*, MIT's virtual take ... on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  -Award winning play The Vagina Monologues. I know many folks involved with the ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... excellent date idea, for those of you who need suggestions), romantic movie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  I met up with some alumni at [annotation note="the pub that for some ... this weekend was a hectic one for my living group. [annotation note ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... Gala dinner and receptions. The cast lineup for 2017 Evening with Champions. If that wasn't enough, I also helped out with recruiting for MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017