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  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... would teach me more science than I’d get anywhere else.  So I went and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy choice considering all the options! — and snacking on some food, I went off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... and spread by travelers from China, Japan, Tibet, and Korea, where it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  As you may have gathered from these blogs and/or any time you may ... ideas and being really, astoundingly good at the whole art thing. She ... creations and adventures: personal favorite posts of mine include The 21

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... named Joel Moore from Berkeley, and his talk is on "Topological Insulators and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... MIT campus. We sat on a bench outside, munched on cookies, and discussed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not ... that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it ... laundry, and I'm still completely unpacked. ----   Some say the cure ... .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... possible and set aside time during our weekend to have fun CPW events like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... life. And packing. I was terrified of packing then. I met a graduate of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... research, and enjoying this view from my lab on a daily basis: Campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to ... office, and most importantly, the Latino Cultural Center's office and ... this involves people serenading each other with a mariachi hat and jacket

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion ... hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room-whose-temperature-usually-hovers-somewhere-between-the-sixth-and-seventh ... while heading to Chinatown last weekend with my friends Sumi and Steph

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship ... industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done ... heard about it just a bit late last year and couldn't apply, which is

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  the SuMmErFuN folks, and trekking up and down the Infinite multiple ... . To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  home eating, ice skating, eating, shopping, eating, and watching movies ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a test tomorrow and I had two problem sets due yesterday, so my so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006