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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  only these individuals in a corridor dedicated to all of SHASS ignores ... criticizes MIT, it does so in a thoughtful, positive way, ending with an incitement to celebrate SHASS, and giving a lucid, balanced explanation of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... stark contrast to mindlessly lounging on a couch, you could try taking a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... never have experienced otherwise. Because I was a blogger, I was hired to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... in Maine with the Burton 3rd Bombers, who were so much fun to party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... be viewed here. Figure 1: Daily Activity I made a box-plot to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... am going to do it." Every little success felt tremendous (what? a note ... grin on my face. It was so much fun. It's much less humiliating to stick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... about how much energy I have to do “work”, or “productive things”, I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go ... felt like I knew what I was walking into when I decided to go to a school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ...you'll have to wait a few years, and see! Thank you all so much for following ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018