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  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en ... goal for the event was to see which prefrosh could name the most women ... Bloggers: This was so much fun! All the bloggers got together to hang out

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  g e m i n i j u i c e a saga of screenshots

  

  i woke up monday morning to this terrifying message in the blogger ... by on the way to class and almost got in the line to figure out wth was ... to buy and also ungodly heavy and impossible to transport (speaking

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 5, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  – and in the most respectful way possible, it felt awesome to eat away ... so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... right places in the body. So some of the research on drug delivery is essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... so much work at once. The first comment I hear from my friends in my ... aspirations that led me here. The real value of search algorithms is not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  else. I hope this a reminder that, even when your nose is to the ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  "] Memes. Please put them in the comments section. Things To Do While You ... .[annotation note="the truly observant will be able to decipher the order in which the ... out. I have yet to buy a single candle. To the mountains. Wake up

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  will most definitely melt due to my egregious lack of chill) the truth ... . no longer would i fall prey to the Hellish Void that is YouTube—i’d do ... be “mindless” in order to be ~my most productive self~. when i got

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year ... points. Unlike in math when you just set the derivative equal to zero, the ... going to bed is better than continuing to study? When will the benefits of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as ... floor competed over who served the most ice cream. Today, in a minute, we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... one of the most fundamental questions any scientist can ask: What is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  major path that is most common in the department, and that I am also doing ... -majoring is out of the question.   With all that in mind, I went into ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  labs breaking ground in topics I was excited to work on in most of the ... a better engineer. The question, then, is how much of this I want to ... fantastic, the sort of dream you never dare to dream. The only question is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  punchline is that to call myself gratuitously lucky would be understating the ... understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  's OK, because i didn't have too much to do! plus, by this point in the ... this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a ... order to write down the poem on the paper i keep by my bed. here it is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019