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  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... highly irregular sleep schedule, I find the first two methodologies too ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  Since I'm returning to blogging after quite the unplanned hiatus ... moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Well, that was a crazy week. If you've been reading the blogs a long ... your schedule. Easy, over, done. However, the nature of MIT lends itself to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... after we found out that the hotel where we were planning to stay had been

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  I had lunch with the ever-dashing Ben Jones today. I hadn't seen him in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 libraries. The Barker Engineering Library is the big engineering library

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  My summer internship ended on Friday, August 17. Today was the first ... (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... , December 1 12:01 am: The plane shakes, service carts squeaking behind us ... , inspired by Cory’s amazing NaNoWriMo progress (he wrote a novel). The city

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... .[/annotation] The past few days have been the shortest window I've ever had between the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  : the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art.  The Burton-Conner Graduate Resident Tutors (GRTs) both plan and organize

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to ... there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... physics, but today I’m here representing the American Astronomical Society

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012