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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... closed to construction, and for a long time all you could see as you rode ... waiting at the MGH station around 5:00 PM, waiting for the train to come in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . That’s also why I study for exams the night before, and try to avoid ... mailed, feel wonderful for all parties involved. Also, send snail mail to ... right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2 ... table trying to cut sideways. Therefore for the safety of the wall, the ... last precaution. Special thanks to my roommate Michelle for letting me

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria ... favorite rappers for R. who listens to American rap and acts like all the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  the final projects. Thanks again to everyone who stuck with me for the ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  semester to acclimate to the pressure-cooker of MIT. For more info, read the ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... wish I did, for to love is to be vulnerable, and hoping for things is

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... up with their last names permanently attached to their first names for ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  for me. I think back to who I was ten years ago, at just 12 years old ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... remember now? What made her tick? I curse myself for not bothering to journal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office would match admitted students to current students for overnight stays over ... admitted women than men chose to attend. For minority students, the 1981

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021