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• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish ... sickeningly bright green drink—a matcha frappuccino—and prayed to the stars that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some ... take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks ... that lead to success in high school math competitions carry over to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  : Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Dropbox, Amazon… They’re all here, ready to talk to you. They might even add your resume to the thick stack on their ... the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... -related musings (as opposed to the completely random posts or deep and sometimes ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard coverage on the MIT ... were making up words to sound cute. But apparently blustery means

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  FOOD in bright red text. To be fair these posters are targeted to ... into the future and a look at what you might be working on if you go to ... is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week ... to person before Professor Minicozzi arrived: Of course, this hack has been executed before, but it is no less impressive to perform it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... , dedicated to providing professional and academic opportunities and resources

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about ... ! ACTIVITY! LECTURE! WITTY! WOO!" Now?  "mow the lawn. go to work. clean stuff ... 've let your life go to hell, so boring!" Not so!  Life is actually pretty

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... acclimated to an entirely new environment and culture.  I went straight from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  which sound strangely familiar but are off just enough to be startling and (sometimes) funny. A few months ago I decided I wanted to make one for the ... , uses the BeautifulSoup library to parse the HTML, and writes each parsed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... 's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012