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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an ... ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple ... At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most ... . It reminds me of Choose Boring Technology, which someone once called ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet, filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  intersection of technology and expression. Our classes and breakfasts are held in ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... something, probably science or technology, maybe writing or music or theater

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in ... , 1 semester of an appropriate Institute lab, and 2 semesters of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007