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  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... room last year, that my walls were papered entirely in post-it notes ... pinned right in front of my workstation just in case I forget trivialities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... spent most of my free time in October and November polishing up on my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... speaker, it’s one of the most knowledgeable speakers in the field! Seriously ... of the most important people in the world in the field of animal models

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ... introspective, methodical, and observant. plus, you're a really great friend ... ideals, and are likely in the [annotation note="undergraduate association

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloon bowls, where you dip a balloon in melted chocolate and pop the ... of the water balloons The two methods made very different shapes and ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ... legacy title. In reality, we're a student run hackerspace that draws a ... MITERS. It's a really incredible atmosphere to immerse yourself in, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  Burger King commercial: This one Anticipated method of death: "In a ... ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... or coordinating one of the most ambitious projects in recent history ... Mere Christianity was influential in Collins's conversion from atheism

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  back in 2017. In early March, Janelle messaged me asking if she could ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However, since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... been involved in actually just starting from this semester. I'm the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... sky was breathtaking and relaxing. In the distance we saw an unusually ... thought of visiting this building we could see in the Cambridge skyline next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... delicious dim sum with friends in Chinatown. After gorging ourselves on ... in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  .303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities ... that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  . Her research is in the use of computational methods for the acceleration ... The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today ... future—one that supports Native Americans in our community now while we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City's Central Park.   Photos of Pluto in 1930, 1996, and 2015 pic ... Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015