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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... be as we know it today- what is it that makes it completely incapable ... 's easy to see how verb conjugation arose the same way. English seems to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  their parents being frantic about their stats and complaining about ... discarding any tests after the 4th one. Why would this be so hard ... after all ... completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  electricity and the job can be better accomplished by hand washing ... needed to be emptied. I took advantage of it, basically, and once I came to ... sheets, they will be 5'' too short -- what those few inches gets you I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... unfortunate jokers decided it would be a good idea to deface the remainder of ... after being temped on Fourth East, and was given my temporary room as a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  and while it did end up being really good, it was the first in a long list of brisket-based food items that I would be having that week ... process for people who want to be founders.       I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  When I found out Hank Green would be our commencement speaker, my ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used ... reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  macabre means. to be clear it does not mean “delicious” "]macabre ... of being called fine dining (Figure 1). It is a perfectly viable meal ... from [annotation note="cj: to be very clear, jacky was already an amazing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  i think i have achieved a state where i feel like i should be ... , and the wednesday morning emails being one of the few constant comforts ... campus's general discussion list that is notorious for being spammy and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... application [link] to be a member of the community. You will see that we are ... the process will be very selective, many of you will want or need to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... supposed to be legen - wait for it - dary. Awe-inspiring. Epic. Life ... cost me my firstborn. Fuji may be a rather strenuous mountain to hike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the computer science world. That being said, I've found myself indulging and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  milk. The fermented horse milk seemed to be a hit or miss among travelers ... Kazakh. It felt… uncomfortable to not be able to understand them, even ... they weren’t listening, I shouldn’t be afraid to just tell them how I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  be called architecture. I’ve logged so many hours onto Adobe’s Creative ... later, and again. I’ve learned to be more okay with solitude, finding ... jobs now, I realize that my chapter in Cambridge might finally be coming

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... triangular pizza server to interrogate how large I wanted it to be. I kept ... visiting must be a seaside village of some sort. I’d pictured myself taking a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  originally thought was a phishing scam but actually ended up being from the ... mini-van, slightly delirious from being in one space for such a long time ... Apple Airtag to stow in our car because we were paranoid the car would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  of being difficult, but 6.115 hit the rare sweet spot of being ... was supposed to be a schematic attached to the lab handout, to which the ... of hardware debugging to be some sort of black magic— how do you figure

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  being unable to do it is like watching the battery drain from all my ... understand what people meant by "being productive with the time you waste ... —" "but it's due tomorrow!" "well are you gonna be working on it right now

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New ... , but it turned out to be something much more insidious since her ... in its somber state to go be energetic in front of hundreds of prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side-by-side!"]be ... much faster than I need to be going at this point in the walk, which is ... ="64753" image2="64754" /] It is already starting to be warmer than I expected

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  long time Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to be Loved) by Bright ... about tokyo. that might be it. La Vie En Rose by Daniela Andrade - i ... - obviously this song has to be on my playlist again because final fantasy 7

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019