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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... quarter of our alums!!"]thirty-four bloggers[/annotation] are all at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  ; at the time, it was basically a couple of text-only pages and not very ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to Malte A. ‘17, a junior at MIT and an intern at the World Bank. He ... when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... to diminish the adversities she and her family have encountered. At the

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  favorite of mine. All international arrivals, for example, stop at Terminal E ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... surprised when it’s a struggle. I have done this before, caught myself at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  has a nice page explaining how they feel about bonfires.) However

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... magic tricks that I read and reread. It had dog ears on every other page ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  polarization. Language change at work. This forty page catalog starts with a ... 't interest me. Like, consider this admissions page, or this Wikipedia article ... looking at course catalogs, and they're all so interesting that I spent the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  academic year) and a chance to intern at Amazon during the summer. Geared ... overview on almost any chemistry topic especially before a test. Some pages also feature practice questions with solutions at the bottom.   

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... to hang out here. Below are the events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... good at cooking. consider this an a d v a n c e d cooking post. (because ... ."]I live in EC.[/annotation] International student from Taiwan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  " an average of once per page. Replicating a previous work's experiments ... . Running any of ESP's programs at our thousand student scale would be ... , or how I'll go to International Students Association meetings to get

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

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... semester abroad has been more than an international experience but has also

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... so that they can see what cool opportunities await them at MIT. This ... had a similar idea, and both of us e-mailed the powers at be (Dave) and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... ): Now, I'm spending my third consecutive summer interning aboard and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  , dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old, memory a little worn away by time. I look at these years with incredible

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  (Second Life) International development AAAS fellow at USAID (UMass ... ; In law school Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Technical staff at Los Alamos (MIT PhD) Management consultant at McKinsey (MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming ... Virginia, prior to starting orientation at MIT. Even then, I was still

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017