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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a ... how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  Service experiences? Once you make that clear to yourself, and have a ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... me feel like I should take the time to produce a good response! I ... , meaning that I was able to start math "a year" ahead in differential

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  , room temp. 10:30 AM. I start making LB agar, a kind of salty Jello for ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido ... Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car ... EC to BC someone whizzes past on a three-wheeled electric skateboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ...not that I give a damn about making comparisons between Nisha and I since we ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  gosh darn it I was going to make that a damn good mid year report. So I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I ... actually able to enjoy learning again when its not a direct causal indicator

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... I don’t even know what to ask. I know I need to give them a heads up

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  make a total of [annotation note="to be fair, they do taste really good ... chose to make a lava cake because chocolate oozes out of a lava cake when ... directly applicable to a few of the foods I was making, specifically

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... heads off to bed, giving you a sympathetic "good night", until it's 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008