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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... 600- to 800-pound weights on the ballast (“Once the rockets are up, who ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... . When I’m up late the night before a deadline I try to focus on the task ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I ... is on their way to the World Solar Challenge in Australia! Support them ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  this tbh"]too much freshman time on P/NR.[/annotation] Made the week ... from sour cream and mushrooms. My personal take on the classic Russian dish. A note on smoking meat: please open the windows, close the kitchen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... beginning of the semester, I was lucky enough to work on an independent ... attacks, unable to move for hours lying on the floor. Some are still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to ... Bryan Adams. Adam sang to me (off-key) during the entire dance. We got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  -and-forth emailing with Jorg, I settled on simple vertical stripes to collect the ... ,86818,86817,86816" caption="Patterning a second layer on the wafer." /] [caption id ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dormitories, referring to their absence on the soon-to-be-former campus as “one ... arranged to neatly divide activities on a north-south line, with work to the ... to work on making up for lost time. Even before the ’93 dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to ... Dumbledore: Okay, Anna. I want you to go downstairs to the second floor. Me: ...second floor. Dumbledore: To the Marlar Lounge. Me: Marlar Lounge. Got it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  2 seconds. Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on ... - don't waste them. On the flip side, don't try to do everything ... 'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot ... . Another project took over 3 ovens on each of the second, third, fourth, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hope to get out of the job. Make sure you've done your research on what ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... , but I'm planning on coming back to the class next fall to try again. L

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my ... you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011