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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... showing at the World Cup, that was probably a mistake.) The other team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  enhance who we are. How do we have time to paint murals? After a grueling ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your ... lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  down at a conceptual level... I can do it if I switch from skate to skate ... threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  openers switch between doing a T-Spin Double, if I can find one, a 4-wide ... mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  looking at the answer key at all. On a real test, if I do not know a problem ... . My room is not a good place to do work. My computer fills my entire ... to pass slowly, because I was doing a lot of work in that time. I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  line, it's a step function. And sometimes all you can do is just hang on ... . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... try out. Then, during my sophomore IAP, I took a Spanish conversation

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  Greek life as I do, but they are actually in a sorority. They brought up ... year. I've got an LA position for 6.08. I'm doing a Microsoft internship ... whatnot, it's a bit hard to do. I was originally planning to spend 2021 IAP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... from a piano several feet above filled the room. Lights danced around ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  your summer doing research, and you had a great time doing the same thing ... also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  and do some work.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “Here is a recent ... has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  hard to do safely in the dark), or hiking 20 minutes to a pitted gravel ... 2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Morning Style. And here’s the kicker: he didn’t do this for free. As a fine ... . Frog-jumping had a certain grim finesse to doing it right. You had to ... reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  anyone else on the planet. What can you do? Keep on going. Make a plan ... . Lately, I cry … let’s call it a medium amount. Maybe you do too. Sometimes ... with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  for contraceptives, then oh boy do I have a rundown for you. The types ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your ... MIT - by the students, for the students MIT is a marvelously sex

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  perspective to what we do in class! And here’s a twilight picture of the Great ... Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  learn a lot, and we're going to think that when you come to MIT you'll learn even more. So it's always a good thing to push yourself academically ... final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... a melody played by the elementary schoolers on [annotation note="a ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025