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  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  am about to be an alumnus. What’s Goodie! I’m Andre Hamelberg, I’m a ... always finds a way, so I was still drinking from a firehose trying to ... undertaking, but I will forever be grateful to have been elected and able to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  permissible, but MIT was pushing hard for people to be gone by Sunday. It ... crisis it is today. I want to preface this post by saying that it is ... my words. The only way to know what it was like to get kicked out of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  would our hopes and dreams be dashed by a failure to launch? Before we ... in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  one way to go throughout the whole process. The table groups were ... it in the most efficient way possible, to as many people as possible ... reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  won, probably due to our unfair advantage from being sneakier. So ... . On the way, I passed the Dome. I looked for Ben to say goodbye, but ... By Karen Sittig '12 If you were ever skeptical about MIT, read this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and ... comedy classics. Judging the characters but slightly hoping to be in their place. Hours of writing and introspection, the only way to rekindle

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  much as home, but i missed it. it felt liminal to be there as it used to ... the way it should be.  i no longer feel like i am traveling. i feel ... . to be honest, i don’t know. i just know that this place that once felt

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  interference, where siRNA is used to stop specific genes from being translated.  siRNA does this by binding to and destroying mRNA molecules before they ... Python this IAP, hopefully I’ll be able to apply it in some lab work. This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way ... '12 tries to become one with the igloo Steve '12 tries in his own way ... Here's our creation. To be honest, not much studying took place last

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I ... . Responsibility for the house is shared by all and everyone is expected to do their ... " and mine tend to be more of the breakfast variety. Each semester during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... friend on the way to classes, and the perfect amount of time to let the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... [annotation note="According to Wikipedia, 21 people were killed and 150 people

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  are going to be on the job market in the next six months, we encourage ... far the coolest project evar, which I was lucky enough to be assigned to ... weather is usually cloudy, so there's not much solar power to be harvested

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... campus, it was time to leave again. I decided that this winter would be the ... towards Israel, it is a great way to connect people with other Jews and the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  not a great way to try and determine their sexuality, but I am by no ... love was. I guess I figured love was being able to picture yourself ... that I was either destined to be celibate or just not a fan of apps

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  way. I had just started to read the book Babel the day before, so I ... doing for over three years. That realization was quickly followed by a ... truly is a gift to be a student.  Swapping out one magical world for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Squadron of West Virginia University to be the National Headquarters of ... ability to be an effective National Headquarters. Once the 2007 ... Wings National Conclave 2009 to be held in Phoenix, AZ. It will be known

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and ... re-organizing the spices to be in alphabetical order by Latin name or ... living groups (tEp, pika, and Tetazoo). If Ayn Rand had to be a dinner

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought I'd lost my round, and then when I went to go put my car down, they

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  and we were on our way. We were all strapped in by the flight chief and ... their way. I stuck around to watch the Blackhawks take off a few more ... [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007