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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was ... for that class. RB was entering his last semester at MIT when he ... for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... for the house (if you're still confused as to why the FSILG houses care

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... that we admitted. We're proud of you - for being who you are - and proud of ourselves for finding you. Second, it was a celebration of simply

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... in the picture!?), reality hit for the first time. In just seven months ... grown up with for the past seven years will go different ways. In seven

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  give you the categories of ten articles for you to guess. Catfishing was ... started playing for about an hour a night, working through the archives at an unsustainable rate. It can be hard to mark time at Mathcamp. For

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... execution is not there. I have SO MANY ideas for projects and blogs and things

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... cognitive sciences as my major for one simple reason: because it was cool, and ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... elaborate for musicals than for concerts or dances. Maybe a musical puts more effort into crafting a specific experience for the audience. But that can

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id ... around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  batteries  – all things necessary for the light from this paragraph to be ... ’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the invention of the cathode ray tube.) QLED Displays

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... sleep normally for several weeks afterwards, probably because of affection ... and breakups. for instance, some of my favorites include difficult

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  screen and waiting for that green PASSED to show. [caption id ... .02. I thought this would be okay because a) they're both on P/NR for me ... asynchronously and get all the content for the class. However, 18.02 hosts these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we ... that could create a skeleton out of spheres (for the joints) and cylinders (for the bones), given a set of points defining the location of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020