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  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I got an email. We noticed you filled out the interest form, it said, but that you haven’t filled out the binding form. I had already accepted that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  're lying. I'm the only person ever who's asked this question, and I'm pretty sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the food places, the aquarium, the coffee shop 5 billion times, and then I was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... go to class due to fatigue. But the runny noses, cough drops, and Vicks Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the ... , confusion, and shame. The world felt...different? "This was the year he fell to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... sort of art. The group hosts various art-related speakers, outings, and ... the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon as the solstice came around"]summer!!![/annotation]Here's what I'm up to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... decided to take the course that honestly was overbearing at times, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of occurrence. So if the input to this function is a text file that contains: “hi

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester ... implementation of curriculum, addressing the needs of a diversity of students ... , the digital divide, teaching through different media, and student

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the ... away all the trash we wanted to keep). But entering college as adults

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. I automatically said, “Heh… $3.14. Like pi.” The ... myself. “PI?!” she shrieked in bewilderment. “You know, pi... the

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  Almost a year ago I wrote Going Social about adding the "Share ... then, So starting today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the ... publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010