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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up ... reevaluate your confidence and your dreams, and through that, you end up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... start-up focused on mobile money lending in Africa" Cirque du Soleil

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  invited students from across Boston to meet up and connect. People from ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... describe life groups as the people that you do life with. You meet up once a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Twitter feed. These days feel worse. And these days, they string up ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to ... . I can’t really work when I’m hungry, which is when I wake up. And I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  up and down in the water. My classmates and I were in a pool shallow ... 's all I could focus on. But I did it anyway. I bobbed up and down once ... much harder to get up to the surface, and that's really inefficient

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  long: 9:30 AM: Wake up, particularly early because no class until 12 ... writing this just now I got up to clean my whiteboard, and then thought ... Matt to shimmy. 11:32 PM: End up dancing with Matt. 11:45 PM: Decide

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , catch up with mates, go out on friday/saturday nights, or is the lifestyle ... cheerleaders were talking about them at practice. Isa dressed up like a bunch of grapes, while Robin dressed up like the orange Fanta girl. The only guy on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  . I packed up everything I owned into cardboard boxes, packed up all of ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... overkill, really, because Alan ended up memorizing the walking directions. Alan: This is false. I was secretly pulling up the walking directions

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... had to pack up way before I did. So it was weird, with half of the room ... here are some pictures I took leading up to the move. This is what my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started ... , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... and daughter Sliding Pockets form colonies that stretch up and down tree

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  just go with the wind but find my own direction and horizon. I look up to ... limits: Zoë R '17 who worked with me all semester, shaping up my study ... others who are still struggling on their way up. But meanwhile, the view

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  a friend probably can’t single-handedly set you up with a job, chances ... about... 6. Talks and symposia Sign up for mailing lists, read posters ... they receive from their respective departments. I signed up for the Brain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  much.) However, I ended up squandering all my work time during the four ... will wake up. So, at around 3am, after six snoozes on three different alarms, I reluctantly got up and made a cup of tea. (I bought a 100-pack of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... turn my audio on to say something, a red exclamation point pops up and ... . The audio from the call is dragged out then sped up then silent and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... knew was there. People go up it but the higher floors are empty. The ... . The concrete rushes up to meet you. You awake with a start in your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016