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

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  woke up at 8:30, got out of class around 3, ate lunch on the way to chem ... I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... time this academic year, and loved it. The movies have an inspired way of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... and talked my way into a free waltz lesson, and I went to the middle of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... for $5, and that's on top of our already low prices," said Rauch ... Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... this mess of overcommitment. Here’s another thing that’s new. For the ... time to just stay in my room with the doors closed, put on some good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -state. Two exams per week - on top of psets and labs - is now just average. And ... my clubs on campus. And schoolwork occupies so much of my field of view that I can barely glimpse the rest of the world behind it. But on the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... 't have your people. Sometimes, you’ll find your best living group on only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... are “good” for everyone, whatever that means. Of course, no singular

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these ... ="attachment_56692" align="alignnone" width="1000"] it's there on the very left of my ... actually located on the dam part of dam bridge, and a highway runs through it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  and Barcelona (where I’d worked on an internship), biology and a host of other topics. No questions on baseball, thank goodness. I walked out ... went to the nearby CVS and bought one of the DVD’s that was on sale. The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... [/annotation]. And that’s life so far in Austin! It’s full of parks, rivers, new ... strangers, and a good amount of traffic. [caption id="attachment_101649

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... on my list are just a matter of the small size of the black population

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  me is powerlifting, which is just a fancy way of saying [annotation ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good ... MIT dorm gyms GOOD: The BC gym is new and clean (post-remodel!), with ... House small but mighty GOOD: The New House gym is smaller in surface area

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024