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

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

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

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• 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 while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I ... highly value my emotional connections with others and struggle to get used

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

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

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... like: what's the nicest way to get the names of the winning team? My ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020