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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... , in this case, a person) takes to process a given input (such as

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... !!!!!! In my last semester at MIT, I have finally learned to love myself and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... little hazard sign pops up next to the four wi-fi bars in the bottom

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... HaikuBot. HaikuBot counts the syllables in each message sent to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... to figure out how to use it. In this project, I knew I wanted to focus ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... love of my life. And choosing not to choose (in this case, staying in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016