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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  went over to the house and once again occupied space. I sat on unfamiliar ... this after dwelling on it for so long and I'm very grateful to all the ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  - the frosh dinner is where the floor takes the frosh out to dinner. On ... decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... -clothing-really-cool-all-purpose material is there? I know! Zip ties! (I spent about 5 minutes on the duct

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... SAE team. (Once upon a time, I was on MIT's team.) Walking to the BART

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  doesn’t match? So you have to be on top of your game all the time. I love ... to focus on my inner identity. I swam & played basketball on the ... , another friend on the other side of the room calls out to tell me that there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  was the place to go for science and math. From that point on, it became ... to.” I was more on the side of “uhhhhhhhhh.” Scary. Matt: The first ... South Dakota, so my exposure to schools on the east coast was pretty low

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... the reasons i originally chose to come to MIT. MIT has changed me so ... to matter as much as the things i didn't even think to think about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus ... yet to memorize the course numbers) is most likely what I'll be majoring

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character ... buzz for Oscar Wao on the class discussion list [see entry: "Running away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  second friendly local math major on our floor to check out my math  he ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6 ... ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  -Lab Zambia group installed solar panels on the roof of Mwape's primary school, so we will spend some time checking on the panels and assessing whether the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the ... ("The" is essential), organized a second gingerbread decorating party

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  packet, with a day to spare. Still, I felt my grasp on all the concepts ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... , but I couldn't explain the proof to someone on a walk. And because (for ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  on wages in Miami (when compared to some other cities in the US ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  and it will get to you when it's your turn on the waitlist."]on hold ... help her, to not trying at all. The plot stays realistic but ends on a ... 's always more to go. By about the middle of the second book, I had a sense of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  I think about the prospect of coming out to my dad for the second time ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... affirmation. And on the other end, I’ve heard so many scary stories about coming

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  stories stocked up on the shelf with nowhere to go. So, although the storm ... and further behind on the content. I tried to catch up over the weekends ... on. I had goals I wanted to accomplish, and I felt like, for the most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... another two hours. once i finally mustered up the willpower to get up, i ... often the entirety of my tuesday. aka introduction to algorithms, and for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... didn't know how to grapple with these facts, or with the heavy implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019