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  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... started by considering mailing real envelopes to people with stamps and ... workers who could get us access to the mailboxes. Alan: This was progress

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the ... people that have them swear by them (similar to how Mac users swear by ... things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  't worked before, in my case), and talk about logistics like how we get to ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we ... . And by "we", I mean mostly them, as I had to leave a few minutes in to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  are no good analogies to real life. Sometimes you get stuck rereading a ... article about impostor's syndrome and the feeling of "racing" to learn math is “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses” by Jordan Ellenberg, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets ... minerals until I would eventually get thrashed by hyperactive eleven year old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  revelatory enough to buy another by the same author (Susan Jeffers) titled ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  writing a couple articles and getting too hosed to continue with it. Instead ... song. We wanted to do Truth Hurts by Lizzo at first, but that didn't get ... emotional health improved by leaps and bounds. After coming to MIT, though, I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin ... Virus by Professor Mnookin, for example, or The Field Guide to Science ... opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  this blog. By going solo, you can more deeply understand what you like to ... whatever I wanted. Admittedly, maybe the teen angst was getting to me, too ... 7th — June 11th I knew I wanted one thing, and that was to be by the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... "Intro to World Music". The class is taught by Professor Tang, who is an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I prefer that extra mile. Plus, it's just so convienant to get around ... existed. These schools all get to offer their students privledges at MIT ... undergrad, there's a special form that I must get signed by a research

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  day, when I tab to an article that I think sounds especially cool, I ... 's especially frustrating when your TA can't seem to get powerpoint open; nobody ... stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  past by carrying on old traditions. "You could get an idea of what ... . Jackson was persuaded by the brothers to stay on to cook breakfast for ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and then i take it back up and eat in my room. i walk to the z center to get tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting ... classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed ... this lack of organization was partly due to never getting used to having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  blogger—and here i am. i wished at 11:11 to get into mit, and here i am ... to the next time I can swing by Pika! With my schedule being the way it ... ’s because with everything I need to do, with the blank spots on my Google

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... trip to China began by crossing the border from Hong Kong into Shenzhen ... up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014