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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... /Harvard/Boston community have regular weekly shows, some of which have been on the air for ... and the relative freedom (save for some FCC regulations) to do whatever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... you're scrounging for things off Craigslist. ("NEHA! I FOUND A FREE ... with a $200 discount for being a college student, as well as a rebate on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... never forget the music I listened to on my UROP trip to Washington, DC. I ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  just for the day. After that, he had to move me back to my original ... easier for him to say "Sorry Charlie", but hassle he suffered for my sleep ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I ... . For now, I still have lots of exciting work to do on Beaver ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  on another novel, Nkem, a word in my language that translates to "Mine ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  tubs (!) of free Toscanini’s through an MIT mailing list dedicated to notifying student subscribers about free food available on campus. That night ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  mentioned for free online, if you want to have an idea of the state of physics ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it ... would pay for SAT II exams, again. Even with fee waivers, applying to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  for other groups too FROSH: well ME: specifically mine ME: the toons ... ME: open 24/7 ME: for all your dyeing needs ME: find us on yelp ME ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal ... ladder. Maybe I’ll do a master’s on the side to check my pulse? In my free ... ’ve been looking for a job in the Bay Area [2013]. I’d like to work on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  attacks, unable to move for hours lying on the floor. Some are still ... moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day-to ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... to some other large open clearing, but he did. He turned the drone on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me to form deep connections. On November 16th, I updated my Facebook ... (one I’d already been lurking on for weeks) so that I could talk to other ... talking to on the forums branched off and made another small forum, just for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• 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 ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011