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  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ), and the wild moments (like being stranded at a border and having a ... simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... every so often and do whatever I wanted with the source material. Anyway, someone told me that Simmons looks like the Borg cube from Star Trek and I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  consciousness and continuously write for as long as you can in the hopes that you ... pressure on myself to get things right the first time and i get frustrated ... without looking at the keyboard than it is to find people who can type on

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new ... My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the first bus, and we got on the second. Then, there was the actual 1 ... experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be ... not regret. The applying-to-college process can be really hard. It was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  International Space Station (whenever it flies overhead), and they can draw the ... brackets like normal? Don’t even get me started on all the weird and obscure ... calculations, I can always rely on them to give me the correct answer, even with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  Electronics” and held at the Media Lab which has to be the coolest building on ... Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  it too quickly can separate its molecules and cause it to become gritty ... flavor with friends and started being the host of truffle parties two years ... consistency. Ms. Allen and Ms. Segall were keeping an eye on the pots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams. Another non-trivial difference between academics at Cambridge and MIT is the ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to ... circuit would break and the car would stop. It was a good idea, but we were

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running ... . Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one ... letter can then be translated. There are many sources for translation, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be ... 've ever experienced. They frown upon eating on the subway and jaywalking and ... comes on everything, even pizza and once I ate a burger with a hole in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  be enjoyable and fun. What once was my most hated subject quickly ... at MIT, but taking 8.021 has showed me that I can and do have the ... clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  the competition would go on hold and awards would be given based on the ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... out, and we quickly moved outside, packed the cargo into the payload bay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  on the East Coast. Friday Head near Iowa State University in Ames and ... home of an MIT Alum and parent of an MIT Sophomore. Be sure to check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped establish the genre of psychedelic rock and catalyze the Summer of Love, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  [annotation note="usually 45 pounds on its own"]just the bar,[/annotation]and my legs ... standing in front of the rack, and people will notice. You can’t go back ... ’d be getting into, and it paralyzed me. I had gotten through the process

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  if we really hadn’t any on hand — and the local Asian/Hispanic grocery ... , sometimes I crave the ability to Go Home and be off campus and pretend that ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  am), so I took some quick time to film and explore the lounge ... on the walls, which I liked quite a bit. Since we can't use the vast ... ="64146" /] Since Move-in day on February 13th and before classes started on the 16th

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021