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The summer begins…
some pictures upon my return. Trains rock!
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Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / Events
2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY
is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT -
Blog / Events
Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord
, is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... UROPs/internships have finished, so why not go and learn a thing or two -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved
Leadership Laboratories (ELLs), and one thing I’ve realized since I became a second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!
When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... was a little confused. Why not just “leadership?” Is this a leadership program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference -
Blog / MIT Life
Sunday in the Park With chemistry
and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant ... down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor -
Blog / Academics & Research
I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.
a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.
Spring term classes started a few weeks ago, and hence all of us ... . This may sound like we simply fall back into a well-worn rut, but in fact ... week attending lecture (as a class of 300); plus two hours per week -
Blog / How to Human
Sensations On Having Feelings
behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... illumination created by a single open window in a darkened apartment complex. The ... ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke -
Blog / MIT Life
The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!
Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with -
Blog / MIT Life
I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post
night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a ... making 2 cakes, cupcakes, and a giant cookie. Everything is vegan and he ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for -
Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English
Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…
thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... ’s main project, "Dynamic Currency Conversion," a system that -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place
how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods Market literally a 5 minute walk from the Trader Joe's I frequent that I -
Blog / MIT Life
“we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:
When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... my friend Siyi C. ‘26, a fellow winter enthusiast who occasionally -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them
long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... , paintbrushes, a small copic marker set, paintbrushes, and a marker pad. This -
Blog / MIT Life
what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored
laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which ... . she signed my book!"] The Dragon Warrior [/annotation] a binder containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the -
Blog / Classes
Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!
Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering ... , working within a budget, and gain unifying engineering experience. ... construction of a high quality functioning alpha prototype. The large teams