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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  ’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 ... even if I tried. It helps that I’m back in NYC now, and can actually wake

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

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn ... this: Class 1: Beat Me at Kirby's Avalanche! In high school, I used the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free ... the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can ... formed.  Even for those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... some magic, and eventually we had the cookies in the oven. I rushed over

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Calculus: I can't mention 18.02 without describing Professor Poonen, an ... 's conjecture sums up the year nicely, as of right now. I came in, as countless other MIT undergrads probably have, relatively sure of how smart I was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  , leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  study abroad opportunities as I can! The Plaza de España in Sevilla This ... is insane. In that moment I realized how rich the world is, and how ... about the program for two main reasons. First, I took AP Spanish in high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  problems — but in the end, we did end up solving many of them. I can ... stressful problems in the future, I can handle it. As Laura put it in a post ... ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• FAQ / Afford

  How do I contact Student Financial Services?

  Contact information for Student Financial Services (including phone, fax, email, and mail) can be found on the SFS contact page.