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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context. First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT, ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I’ve embedded the five videos…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  a beautiful summer day in Boston I stayed in Boston last summer. For MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are three main housing options…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome, white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind, by no means…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects and my budding…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  one Kanina pa tayo naglalaro sa aking utak Paligsahang palakasan ng hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or spring semesters. the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won’t be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  NAVIGATION The Class Lab 1 Lab 2 Design Exercises Weather Smart Lamp The Clapper Final Project Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 The Final Product final…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here’s a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in my ears is…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku Poetry Day! It’s not very much of a…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally going to go out just before CPW,…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very…

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to my phone…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I’m taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines, a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’s short film “Powers of Ten” which features weekly lectures⁠41 Last week we…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020