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• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me ... ?? and also did more than one artsy photoshoot with the fairy lights in my room. I started running with a few roommates, learned and filmed a dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with my best trait and instead replied with my worst, saying that it was my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... to do with myself. Today was a day of different feelings. Hope

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  , dropping classes, meeting with my advisor, attending welcome-back meetings ... , not harder. I'm starting the year with a fresh slate, a new mindset, a ... honest with myself the things I [annotation note="Read: 6.046, 7.012, one

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  the ground running with meaningful projects such as the one that the ... started last year with 50 girls, 2 teachers, and 1 city. This year it is 600 ... worked with decks of cards to match 4 Reyes (Kings) and 4 Reinas (Queens

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down at my randomly-assigned table with -- who? faculty from various ... , this week especially, that no data is clean; these are people, with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  always struggled with fiction writing and long-form storytelling. Writing a ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them. This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... , starting with Tuesday's 18.02 lecture. Class opened with something rather ... weapons-grade plutonium. It also hopefully tasted better, with marginally

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  you were wondering). This year I was far more concerned with all the mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is ... stocked with a combination of the care package candy (so I wouldn't eat all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... Vienna Teng with a glorious choral arrangement. There's dubstep piece with many wubs. There's a Red Hot Chili Peppers song with a guitar solo. In

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn ... : To come up with Medieval puzzles and challenges for an upcoming ... eventually came up with a hundred different ideas which they plastered all over

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... of the class have your own virtual 32bit processor. And with the class ... with globalization both of them become 9 unit classes (this is for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... top with my tootsies freezing. Let me explain with some visuals: Bea

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... scholarship? If I mark an identity will that give me brownie points with the ... -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , Massachusetts have academic institutions with Chancellors. MIT has me. The ... students with the traditional demands and rigor of academic excellence? How ... “listening tour”: talking with students and student groups, with faculty, and

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  differential equations recitation and pontificated about furnaces with Edward '12 ... group reunion and signed up to see Spring Awakening with my advising group in May and almost went square dancing with Donald Guy '12 who was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... stood there awkwardly, not quite sure what to do with myself. The tour ... videos that, unfortunately, have very little to do with MIT. But, through a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  with the shop guys in Pappalardo (where we build out 2.007 robots.) I ... challenge was to come up with a team name, we decided on “I Can’t Believe I ... of humor didn’t align with the judges’. Out of the five finalists, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008