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  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc ... tell me it's going to be okay. In an email sent out to the current MIT ... always says, that’s because of the people." It seriously is. I honestly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... wasn’t born yesterday and I know that it’ll probably happen to some ... , anybody who is sexually active (and anybody who would like to come to MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  problem in theoretical computer science is to prove whether P and NP are ... used some of our wing budget to buy three more of them. they are very ... is really fun to revisit them with him. we have learned how to say

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  shut up to my walking partner(s) about how beautiful it is Put on ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... energy to look around me and feel joy. but already the lists of things i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another ... HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever since. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to participate in it this year because

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest ... , which is to say, not very. A whole slew of factors beyond my control

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... . It is no longer about survival, it is more about experiencing the ... over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say ... , it felt like it wasn’t the right thing to say. Some drafts tried to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  about us is comically distilled down to its essence. on a more ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events ... Talks With Shallow People." the event is hard to describe, but involves

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  is finally starting to soothe that angst. It’s too easy to fixate on ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to ... Institute. It’s also an incredibly fancy event that expects people to peel off

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  , and textile systems. His office is home to many of these devices and it ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... that they have to produced using etching. The micro-stapler is very fast

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  acronym is probably more recognizable than the full name. It’s therefore ... … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation ... ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... tent. “I was going to call the ranger. You left it on an empty site.” He ... overwhelmed, and loving everything I’m doing. Right now it’s hard to imagine a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  just the other way... music is very popular here, and it is very easy to ... deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  sequel to Fantasy High. A Court of Fey and Flowers - This is the current ... had to write a blogpost about it: Character Driven Stories My favorite ... it is also dialog that occurs in-game. So many of my favorite moments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  they choose to stay. It's hard to know, at this point, what will happen with the travel ban, or to the people affected by it. What I do know is ... brief, and it is the one MIT will continue to make, for as long as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  [/annotation]are harder to motivate for oneself when there is no clear rewarding outcome. It ... busy MIT is it can be really hard to meet people any other way.  So ... 54 units (this is a new-ish change, before it used to be 48). A lot of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  got to go to the Great Barrier Reef. So it depends on what the film is ... wanted to start and we knew what our ending was, which is kind of rare. It’s ... braintrusts, you get to see it’s pretty candid. The braintrust is all the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics ... energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific ... done a lot of very strange things to society. It was kind of fascinating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012