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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when ... how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and unpack later (in some imaginary future wherein I have ample unstructured ... and Planning major in me got real excited. The exhibit considers "how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... ” activities like building rollercoasters and fire-spinning. As proof, I can ... . People can be miserable in, say, Next House just as much as in EC. It

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

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... 's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don ... really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my ... taking so long meant that i was a bad person. i wondered how my friends

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  people, I’ve “defroshed”. I’m starting to see cracks in the system I can ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I'M STUPID AND MIT MADE A MISTAKE WITH ME IF I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A BASIC

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  . It's the grad student run pub in Walker Memorial, which means I can ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... Punjabi dialogues that I just couldn't figure out (I am not really fluent in ... single person with levels of enthusiasm every single day that I can only

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... . Very few people actually know how to pronounce "Stata." I've had just as ... actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019