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  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... 's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... from the affected areas: you've probably seen the message elsewhere on My ... not, please consider visiting campus via the Overnight Program. Let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually set everything up. The Notion renaissance has made me reconsider the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew that the years I spent wasting away ... with 2024s and it's been an absolute joy. I somehow convinced the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you ... friends with the people in House 4 because I walked into the lounge and ... walk into the lounge and say hi to whoever was in there, ask what they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  . Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is, for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... CMS class requirement, but aside from that, I have the freedom to pick ... principles to understand the structure and reactivity of organic molecules

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... the original instead, because it's better. If the cover's bad, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: 8/10 “Like lemonade, without the lemons”  Is this safe??: ?/10 The [annotation note="safety data sheet

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... s u m i n g[/annotation] my days for the past couple weeks  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  The last time that we blogged about our academics was in June. We had ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018