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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia, to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... my first all-nighter talking to amazing people. I remember my host, who ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up hours of their time to making sure students feel comfortable with the course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• 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 / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... , essentially telling the computer what toolpaths to take."]CAM[/annotation] model

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... , why am I writing this post? Why am I sharing it to you, rather than cryptically trying to talk about it without actually showing it so you don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer ... ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house ... side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun ... printer to print out all the parts. [carousel image1="60227" image2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note ... are the only restaurants I used to go to before

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... morning, of the cold, sunny walks to and from the bus stop, and of the ... students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019