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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  , including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and large open lobbies separated from the classrooms and offices. These are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite things. I found it again this morning and curled up outside with my coffee

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy ... Splendor or Carcassonne, and if we get enough people we could play Modern Art. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the ... and finals week started and i scheduled dinners and lunches and walks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that ... , Central and Harvard Squares inspire with quaint shops and cafés and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused, of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... , and I live with my charming rocket scientist husband Adam '07 and our ... categories. Lab and other school things I do less often than lab Since I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I hadn’t seen in ages. It’s an interesting combination; the beginning and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... . He flew the drone up. And up. And over the water. And a little more

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I ... , and I was using my four for my family. This meant that my boyfriend (who

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... up early and go to bed.....well still late most nights if we’re being honest. And (to bring us to the meat of this post) when I leave my house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... left before your early applications are due, and if you are anything like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of ... jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not just a little awesome and badass, but really, really awesome and badass

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015