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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what ... that I also need to do laundry -- and the laundry room is right next to ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no elevator near the stairwell you always take. Find an elevator and take it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  common factor is a very strong sense of obligation to home countries and ... others that don’t. The discussion is so long, that students’ come and go ... , emphasizing a key point: “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t.” Despite the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  my six chats, there was a low of 26% of the class (6.034) and a high of ... class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  phase changes and entropy is when she talks about the fact that water can ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  , and the same smells during freshman orientation. A clean, efficient ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share ... the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it ... Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap between MITese and "regular" English. And beyond that, I also want to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  is the best Camille that she can be and I am proud to be Camille's mom ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  't have the privilege to grow up with. There's a notion of "passion" that ... out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and ... friendships and relationships. I had a conception that I would only be able to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... but a small step into the realm of culinary delight, and I expect to ... opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... . Also, the pset and exam somehow cover different material. And I have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... convenient dust cap and the rotating end can be connected to a rotary switch to turn the laser on and off. The laser is powered with a 10280 lithium

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... -viable fragments, unable to form a necessary attachment to the tree and incapable of ... begun to exit their home trees and creep along the ground where prey is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... all sampled the different flavors, and a few people took the half

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

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  to the awesomeness). I was thrilled, and everybody in my lab is totally ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  very kindly that there was the lovely bright blue "Click Analyze to begin ... sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015