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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... of the foundational course 6 classes. MIT is hard, and for me, it ... know what to do with - is the sense of being overwhelmingly cared for and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  -growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time ... overlaid. And hydroboration oxidation is Anti-Markovnikov. I really have been ... is always predictable: the infamous synthesis question. The task is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... -by-hour schedule. But today is November 1st. It's been exactly two years since I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  gender discrimination among its women faculty in the 1990s. Below is an ... within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance.” President

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  're shallow on the west side and "very jagged" on the east side, that this is where Yosemite is. I thanked him. Now that I'm done chatting with my ... current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  - AMS is like 21H (a regular history major) with a special twist. --- It is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... fact, the only thing modern historians are entirely certain of is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  only a freshman. Now, granted, it was my mountain bike, which is way too ... imagine how exhilirating it is to keep up a renegade who's cutting off a ... Boston, anyway. What I'm getting at is that the trip down to Dim Sum was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... this nervousness is something I'll grow out of, or if its just an ... classes, and for the most part, I was right. My favorite class right now is

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  earth. I’d laugh if someone told me this is the power they’d want. He ... is this behemoth titan hanging over all the weaker, new heroes of today ... ."]Speedball[/annotation]? I bet you don’t know who that is. Or [annotation note="After getting

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  surprisingly frictionless. Until it was time for the diagnosis, that is. The ... ’t the official medical term, but this is pretty much what I was told ... "] This is the only photo I took at the hospital oops. (The blood oxygen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... means…what even is a kilometer?"]length of a football field

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... don't know what I want in life. And really I think that ironically is ... 's a greater part of me that is terrified. To not know what these next 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  “teaching is hard! The last time I taught someone anything was showing my ... Anthrax[/caption] Also known as rising action. ‘Temptations’ is a bit ... . The tl;dr is that every story follows one [annotation note="this has

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’s shabbos candles. The door handle is a beaver cast in bronze.  [carousel ... itself is full of tools, many of which were forged down here and never left ... take breaks, then left me to it. The forge is surprisingly a good place

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... combined study in humanities with either science or engineering. 21S is a ... /engineering is 60% humanities and 40% science/engineering. Typically it is about 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different ... Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... “your emotional pain is healthy and useful” thing brought my own

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my earliest memories from freshman year is of going fratting with 20+ other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... , which is relatively okay pre-quarantine since it was balanced by daily ... schedule different video calls or online activities. This blog is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We love Maangchi's YouTube channel! She is really cute and funny, and ... tasted just like vegetables with rice and soy sauce, which is not bad by ... with turkey or chicken. Another alteration we made to the recipe is the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  . Perhaps it's a bit of an overexaggeration, but it seems that this is a ... . Being back home has made me realize that the person I am now is the person ... unabashedly. This is the person I was meant to be. And MIT gave me that chance

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019