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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  expectations for my first oceanic viewing as well. When I first got to the Boston ... fascination for bodies of water (Charles River <3), and returning to the ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... hours dedicated to grinding out reports for this course, I have finally

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic ... screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if ... song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... benefit of being able to stay for an entire year, or more, depending on your ... 't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you ... wanted to switch to 8.01L. On thanksgiving day, I begrudgingly agreed. I

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  . If you're still hungry for more details on this wacky game, never fear, for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... linky linky link to win fame and glory on next-forum! This game will end

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning. Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... things in my free time and go to the gym everyday and cook food and, well, you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a ... you're on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about

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

  50 Reflections

  

  , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... no road map to follow. I'll be forever grateful for Matt's willingness ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would ... held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... school process. In the meantime, feel free to email in with any questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... for their work on nanophotonics, and there was never any question of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020