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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  up in the most succinct and accurate way possible – Warning: May ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The ... groups and one of my favorite bands of all time. I ended up seeing them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... practice - until it was the night before a big test, when I shored myself up ... declaring a major. Also, they're MIT exams, which scales up the difficulty

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... when you just need to pick up a carton of milk or orange juice and don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you'll see what I mean). Nine years later (NINE YEARS? I'M SO OLD) I signed up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... up for coffee. In the true spirit of SF, our less ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  . Locals may end up using the term even if the storm does not exhibit a ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I ... mess up, as far as preparation goes. Packing warm clothes, remembering to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this ... are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... professor, not to be a researcher. No – I want to be able to wake up everyday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should ... coming up, my friends and I tried to plan something fun and off campus ... -retreat. Saturday night we went to Shaw's and bought food for our picnic. We ended up

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  ) classes knotted my temporal ropes into a gnarly mess, wrapping up any loose ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... , where x is the number of people signed up for the trip and y is the legal ... figure of speech, by the way; I ended up with some excellent macros of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  advance left, one without proper punctuation, because someone up there ... more infuriating than that, only took me up the block. To get an idea of ... to the right," and turned to the right. I ended up right where the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  if you have an oven and a day to wait. Simply cut up your favorite ... yogurt, pick up a cheesecloth at the grocery store along with a mini ... a half for a 2L batch of ginger beer). Stir it up and add about a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  decision. Every day, I wake up. To be more specific, every day I wake up and ... stay up until the early hours of the morning discussing problem sets ... up a stack of wide-ruled instead. Halfway to the cash register, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  the original parts and then pick a team name/theme. Dress up and have a ... lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid ... "Team Stealth." We spent about 3 days working on our bike and it ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... ."   Keep your Arrival and Departure monitors up to date, for obvious

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  bubble up during Finals Week. By “antics,” I mean something as innocuous as ... a California area code. Further sleuthing, by which I mean picking up ... stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  the dorm for a nap. I slept until 8 o'clock and then packed up to study ... when my next final (2.003) started. I threw up a quick blog entry at the ... just gave up, caved in, and I fell asleep. I woke up later, watched Flash

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  started writing this instead. You only have one freshman year. Live it up ... 't welcome new faces in their place. Stand up for yourself as a student ... from ten thousand feet up. Above all else, keep MIT special. No one is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent ... be re-written from the ground up because the writers find a plot hole that is too large to ignore or patch up through subtler means. My team

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and ... end of the week, and apparently someone up above (by which I mean the 4 ... which the barbecue pits line themselves up like well-behaved, frankfurter

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008