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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... passengers passes by. Then, a train originally destined to Ashmont rolls by ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space was. Plus, they had this cool beaver light. Our team got to work by ... , but honored. We all just had such a great time getting to work together

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  can drop by anytime the next day or later to get their work. This was my ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... class readings, I managed to get through Michelle Obama’s Becoming

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained ... do not want to be limited by exclusivity. Some people prefer to ... you just want to talk to someone, or get advice about healthy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... books being published by small, independent presses to renowned authors

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... shots), not by proximity to the bull’s eye. Usually I aimed at the bull ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... kind of an asshole, I try to live by his philosophy of adhering strictly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... probably get them then. If you're not traveling a long way, though, then by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you ... her, I'm inspired enough by the stories I read to think that the world ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  never had to work that hard. I was getting results I was happy with, and ... wasn't hard). It gives you a chance to finally get those time ... academic career is leagues better now than it used to be. So when you get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010