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  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... place where I'm enjoying life more, so I'll take it as a good sign. With ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... will do this for you anyway. :-) My advising seminar, 1.A24, has proved to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone ... took this class, with a man we'll call Mr. Bosh, for reasons I will let ... - a ritual for all MIT physics majors), he was lab partners with Mr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the ... take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rather than sitting in a car on top of the track. We had the car-on-top ... was called "Danger Zone", which makes me think of the movie Top Gun. You

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  As students pull their hair, proclaiming “IHTFP!” With your high ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays ... softly smiling and our eyes Probing with a questioning light We rub our

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... , and registered for the conference. The first big event was Freeman

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... 't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going ... serve us our 6.006 exam." (credit for pic goes to FB user Loneoceans Ggy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of ... start up in that field (see: genome sequencing). Aim for small wins first ... 're working on problems with a time scale of many years?  If you're a nuclear

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a side effect, though, I never really became involved with the math ... numeracy - trigonometry, for example - is absurdly old. Haven't you ever

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  dressed up super pretty for the final awards ceremony!  It was so much fun ... - they love to build, explore, cause chaos, break rules, play with polymers ... awesome UROPs and internships and fighting fires and playing with polymers

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the ... and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... detail LOL[/caption] The last time I lived somewhere with four seasons (as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  with $500,000 to commission a piece of art. Students get free access to ... that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... sends you an email! Hooray! Set up a meeting with the grad student for ... happy with the prospects for your last semester at MIT! The last two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  little creek. The path was littered with signs about famous generals and ... 't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... counterclockwise with a bit more gusto. Nothing. "Well, that's interesting," he said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  from now. For now, with two more semesters left, I’m looking forward to ... literature to product design; having fun playing a sport where we kick an ... ;[/annotation] and trying to set a record with my friends for most soup dumplings consumed at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this ... song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  thing that I loved having in common with Kidist was an appreciation for ... ever from MIT. Even with MIT students being scattered across the globe, I ... (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020