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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... . It has virtually no application to me or my life, and I will probably never use it as long as I live, but it was interesting to learn.  When he

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to say that it's the "top sliver" because there is no rational way to ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the ... stable, obviously voiced a little hesitation. It took me a while to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  trying to avoid the deadly ice storm. After that I'll be taking 10.391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now ... you wouldn't know it because I blogged only about things that happened

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  this would be more fun and less scary to do with a friend, as it is ... use couchsurfing as it's meant to be used -- that is, not as a ... is useful for some people because it allows them to build income, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  on everything. As the election nears, it is important to acknowledge ... live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... hours to Pennsylvania to see my cousin and his fiance get married. It is ... some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure ... ="Try to ignore the flaming blender in the corner... he'll be fine, it's not ... enough to contribute a mural of my own, and then it doesn’t happen and I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  the year. What is something you’re looking forward to for the rest of ... main thing I’m looking forward to for the remainder of the season is ... posters and buy snacks for our psych buddies before heading over to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  convenient. In any case, it is now pitch black outside; nothing to be seen at ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... , which must be incredibly loud to live in. This is not to say it is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  everyone on it. Our room is so cozy and well decorated and having the best ... seriously, while I couldn’t find the energy to clean my room and take pictures ... It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty ... something to hold me over until I could buy regular food. That box of granola

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... north) and the train is going to Davis, it implies that Ben and Jill got ... Mezrich's original book. It is quite fascinating to see how they came up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing ...   While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible ... of fun. (SPOILER: It was). Fast forward to the end of the PE class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Biden [annotation note="a reference to a tiktok"]is it bones day ... . Is it blessed or cursed? I can't say for sure, but now it's on the ... to fill the remaining space instead. My favorite one is the alien

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... 'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS ... it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  , but it’s hard and computationally expensive to do this. This is ... ’t go to rowing practices. This means my UROP is my main organized extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  emails as well as I used to. Yet, it is hardly the worst thing that could ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... -seven consecutive hours of consciousness in my scramble to actually finish it. By the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to buy the shirt because it had corn on it for Iowa and I didn't want ... to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... could find. Although the result is minorly atrocious, it acts almost like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025