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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  not blogged much this semester, and this term also broke the record for ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  discuss philosophy and values and the the human condition together. We also ... This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and ... , Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  ahead, overkill spreadsheet and conditional formatting courtesy of yours ... , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  one test My fate and class grade is sealed With one test I'm the good ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  cappella group, the Asymptones (tagline: "we sing fun and nerdy music!"). We had some really, really awesome repertoire planned for last spring, and it all got left behind when we moved out and stopped rehearsing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We ... process has been exponentially more demanding, rewarding, and yes ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  their free time). that life in general peaks during college and is less ... -fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his ... his parents and therefore kills his father and marries his mother by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  school and not many opportunities. I usually spend my free time playing ... corn fields, in my free time I enjoy reading comic books and working on ... , meeting real college students, and learning more about the college

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to ... bookshelf in my personal blog. It's now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone ... written and confusing course notes for 8.02 (physics E&M). Emotional

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  Housemasters and house government, I have arranged for free massages for Burton-Conner students! What that means is that licensed massage therapists come in and provide free 8-10 minute massages for Burton-Conner students who sign up in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts ... comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  , Libraries Week, and MISTI Week. Knowing that this week would be packed with activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  charge an application fee anyway? Between staff time and materials, the costs of running an admissions office are vast, and the application fee ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  about it here and here) and has made appearances on the fingers of Tony Stark, the John Harvard statue, and soon, my classmates. In the several ... taping CVS pharmacy receipts and crumpled pset packets over the door window

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  We’re already a month into the semester, and [annotation note ... semester-ly schedules, or really talked about my major at all, and that maybe I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  up here people melt"]hot[/annotation] and there’s no air conditioning ... . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  and useful in the real world, advocating for minorities in STEM fields ... this nebulous time, it is one of the few things that feels real and true ... , but away I stayed. This is analogous somewhat to real life--I still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  -modern glass and steel, traditional marble, and cracked windows covered with peeling paint (it feels both exciting and homey!), but objectively speaking ... above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... camera (and learning other things as well, I suppose), it was exciting to sit down and see what ended up documented.   The

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  using that term on television. And yet, we here at MIT do it all the time. She posted back that it was an insulting term, and she cited Wikipedia ... I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011