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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... entire undergraduate population, which includes Burton-Conner. Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind ... fall. First a mile, then a mile and a half, then two. I signed up for an ... wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  for, and the fact that you end up closer to your goal is, at least for ... getting rooms: Kresge for kickoff, classrooms for team spaces and wrap-up ... especially love the submissions for A Twisted Theory. (The wrap-up has spoilers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials ... if he doesn't know what an enzyme is. My apologies if I end up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , taking up space. For[annotation note="this is among the many abbreviations ... list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  cinder block oven for a disastrously large pie. I loaded up lots of lumber ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... between yoga and powerlifting. For me, [annotation note="But not injurious

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  colleges and only end up paying for a few. You'll save your family a LOT of ... the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  worried, stock up on frozen meals from Trader Joe’s for easy dining (you ... pricing, but be careful when looking at the pricing chart. For example, McGregor has mostly singles, so its actual cost for an average freshman is higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  leaves. Mix up the dish for 1 more minute then turn off the heat ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... . After being holed up in my room for the majority of IAP, I got myself to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... for me shooting up. It felt good. I’ll admit it. It felt good. I now ... ’m scrambling for anything that will call me Filipino. I picked up this label

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , I approached a friend. Ruben P. ’18 had stood up before the panel, and ... . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he ... , and he’s here. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) granted

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks ... Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015