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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  too. But ultimately, it kinda just feels like another day in the life ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks outside MIT. Go on walks with friends. Go on walks in the tunnels. Follow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... stuck in this limbo of not knowing? As human beings, we are constantly focusing not just on “what is”, but “what can be”. In many ways, this is good

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my best." Literally verbalize it (out-loud, in a whisper, in your head

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure ... reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019