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• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... it to my family to spend at least one week at home with them before

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... stairs to celebrate with Burton 3rd when Burton 3rd burst through the door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  . While all your CS friends are going off to Google and Facebook, making six ... with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... through my time at the 'tute. Two years down, and two more to go. Since then, another year has passed, and I have another one to go. Oh my god time is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina ... university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... sclerosis, aka Lou Gherig's disease. The challenge is to dump ice water on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He ... to sculpt phrases ever so beautifully. Our playing went from

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  driving force behind MediaCloud, a project to help researchers ask and ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... the UROP website. 4. "I'm not sure what I want to major in.  Is that ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the ... , what does MIT recommend? If you go to MIT's page of Recommended Laptops

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  pass and started rifling through my emails. i thought, should i go to ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6 ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  once again the last person in the Shire: I am forced to recall packing up ... two boxes; I am forced to recall singing "Hallelujah" as I walked down ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... people, until I was forced into my room and to bed and told to calm down ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... Premiere and Ring Delivery, so of course I had to show up to Premiere and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022