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  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... into the depressing habit of staying up unnaturally late to take

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... to do laundry. I would spend an entire day doing 4-5 loads of laundry

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in ... the world. The goal when we started was to get to 25% of the world

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... it, it involves creating combinations of falling, popping blocks to ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  adventures! Part 1 - Acquire the Ingredients There’s a bunch of benefits to going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of ... of Massachusetts it occured to me. While we're all focusing on Math and ... So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the ... boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  of a gene we're trying to insert. [caption id="" align ... terms of cleanliness, but it's not exactly what i hoped to find. i send my ... together where we get to see yet another lovely TA. all of my TAs are so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry ... okay for portions of my thesis to be under a  Creative Commons - Non

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  committee. Last party, on the last day of classes. Last time linking arms to ... ,[annotation note="I will not comment on our method of getting in"]we had no problems ... incredible covers of great dance music, and although we'd only planned to stay

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... person speaking Dutch backwards. In the category of Peace -- The Air Force ... . While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  file, and overall just an overwhelming amount of stuff to keep track of ... , back to procrastination. Although I was Very On Top Of Things for MIT and ... so I wouldn’t have to face the consequences of procrastination and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  formulas (for example, to determine the optimal size of government). For 17 ... methods, some of which have only gained recognition in the past 5 years. We ... the middle of the same hallway Chomsky passed on his way to the office

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  lot of things about where I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to go into ... "too busy" to spend time in the dining hall. I made the mistake of neglecting to take care of myself by taking time for myself, and ignored the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  forced to let go of any part of me that thinks I’m better than other people ... ’t have to). My experiences with him were my best academic experiences of ... ’t figure it out. One of my biggest barriers towards success was that going to

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how ... mouth, not the outside, so I couldn't really hold a bags of frozen peas to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022