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• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... least in Yunnan), so everyone buckles up for a minute and then unbuckles ... Vietnam. We woke up at the crack of dawn and headed for the Vietnam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  these questions, we have to look at a sticking-together rock up close ... pretend that they're balls for now.) These little balls cause little ... directions. Add them up, and you get no total force, so those rocks just sit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  ="alignnone" width="343"] She did it! So proud! ^-^[/caption] Step 6: Prepare for ... apart and prepare for the worst case scenario by constantly thinking about ... , ready for action![/caption] This is when everything comes into play. Make

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in ... the fences when they don’t even close? Cars here slow down for a deer ... grow up. In college, youth is appreciated. It means a more flexible sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... , in spreading the message that Many Things Are Arbitrary. For one thing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take ... , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes ... closet at my old grade school, which was headquarters for some secret spy ... a really good blog entry in general. But then I woke up and was

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  morning when I first wake up, I reached blindly for my iPod so I could check ... Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... 't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  up balloons. As for the total number of man-hours, I had no idea ... So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods ... Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI ... university. I ended up living there for the majority of my time in Mexico and ... very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  you can just be comfortable around because you have been so close for so long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and ... . Normally this category stayed around something like 1-3 people for me. It was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. I've been blogging about Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'll still probably pile up everything you've worn for the past week at the ... wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  . Anyways, that’s enough about the very empty week that’s coming up for me ... frat offered me a bid, but I ended up turning it down for reasons that I ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  [Follow-up] ... For ropes, I would include that EC, as compared to other MIT ... . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  ’t have any plans for the weekend while Sang had his weekend all set up with ... ! Monday morning, we all woke up early for a day of practice presentations. I ... for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  really you'd rather curl up in bed and put your shades down and never look ... essays for our awards applications, was on the drive team at the regionals ... semifinals for the first time in our team's history. And I realize, only now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012