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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... everyone grabs what they want and finds a place around the house to sit down ... match. A few years ago, when we had a larger crowd than usual thanks to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  to make sure that EC gets a good housemaster, because we want EC to ... . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  Now, we actually had to make the clock. We sent out a call for help by ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by ... , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica ... initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... required certain backgrounds, there was more than a few that were excited to ... you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... to drive back home only to head into Boston again a few hours later for

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  semester, I was invited by a former professor to be the Undergraduate ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four ... recitation, plus a wednesday lab. my section was from 11:00 to 12:30, and that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations, whether it be going to a party where I don’t know many people, or refusing to try a back dive off the board even when all the younger kids do it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... retailer through their app, that retailer will donate money to a charity of ... during a Mass Innovation Night to see if I recognized or had already met

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  took me to a dietician, and at this point I started eating again to get ... difficult to be okay with getting less than A’s on assignments, and struggling ... ridden place. As a child I was always too afraid to go outside when it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  by companies. On Friday, we figured out how to design a showerhead ... weekly basis or anything. Our first assignment is to present a piece by ... unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get ... really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  undergrad, there's a special form that I must get signed by a research ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition ... seven floors. It's home to a GIS lab, as well as the resources of courses

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  time to get back to my room. Stay tuned for a fun day trip idea! ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... the first semester was going to go exactly to plan. i was gonna be a ... ! maybe i'll even be a blogger! and everything is going to go to plan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... . All the while, little Aria is getting adjusted to her new home on ... This Sunday is the infamous East Side Party, which is open to the MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... President Obama were forced to realize themselves through a more creative ... soon joined by others, who seemed to have had the same bright idea. We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023