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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... . Because of my astronomy expertise, I get to give talks for amateur astronomy ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of ... disciplined by their high school for practicing responsible citizenship by

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For ... to fend for ourselves, lead valiantly by the[annotation note ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  with all 183 teachers to get them background checked, as required by MIT ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  can drop by anytime the next day or later to get their work. This was my ... ! It always takes me a while to get ready for bed and fall asleep, but I ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  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
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... purchased for $.99. SNAP recipients get half off $10 or less of produce a day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady ... awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... for May ball and its fireworks! Old friends and new friends at St

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... 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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because I was late (what else is new), but then I got distracted by Benson L

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of ... things that I've tried to live by or maybe wish I had realized when I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019