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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... nice height Cons creepy lighting on higher floors at night second ... from Joonho's blog "places at mit," which has much prettier pictures and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... quarter of our alums!!"]thirty-four bloggers[/annotation] are all at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  through their class. I labeled up to three categories per reason.  At ... you will take at MIT. so much fun. i felt like a little kid again ... .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  ungestalt, like looking at all the pieces and not seeing how they fit together, like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... my email on every Google Form that caught my fancy. The Assassins Guild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so ... that bridges represent a central tenet of my life, at least my education ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target ... from a gallon jug I filled up at gas stations. From there, the goal was ... disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif ... respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  guide you through the laborious process: 6:19pm: I arrive at the Tech office twenty minutes late; articles are nominally due at 6pm, so it would ... – notifying us that there's free ice cream at the coffeehouse on the third floor

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  at high school students. Last Splash, we had 2,142 enrolled students ... uncertainty about whether or not to run Summer HSSP at all. We had Splash ... chance to, you know, grow, whatever that means. But at the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  938,324,129 That Creepy Guy staring at me from across the airport ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  conservative family. I did not "date" at all in high school; it was more or less ... ”, multiple or frequent interactions. Storytime (don’t laugh at me please ... was at least better than trying to fool me into thinking they wanted the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  talked about this proposal, and this need, at the next blogger meeting, and ... identities at MIT, where they felt welcome, none have been "out" on the blogs ... few weeks ago, Yuliya hosted a guest post about all the gay events at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  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 while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... four years and all the things that college had given me and I was at a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013