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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... baseball cap to my head on a really windy day on my way to the Esplanade, to ... frat party, to running across on a bitter cold night after a long walk

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid ... ;The quick hack is to add a complete Arduino, which has a power regulator, in ... (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  a booth on one of these tables and advertise to passersby in between ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a ... ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  place to pset. There's a place on the sixth floor as well that I called ... leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all ... wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• 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 ... became WMBR ("Walker Memorial Basement Radio) and got a shiny new

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s side of the room. Four. MIT was gracious enough to put all of us on a no ... , they’re moving us to different dorms next week. We’re all on a meal plan ... , and I had to take a break on the way there. But it was fine. I was in no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  brain and chances are I'll discover a new lead to doing the problem at ... wanted to write a blog on how to write the essay but I had to use froyo to ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per ... because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the ice released a new policy, limiting the extent to which ... avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  Coffeehouse Lounge, a space open to student groups on campus. Also, we were told ... handicap accessibility ramp A new elevator on the Conner side Removal of ... remaining two freshmen to live in a dorm. We ranked MacGregor, New House, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024