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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old ... malalapitan; here I am, drenched from the rain, nowhere to find shade, no one to ... hanggang leeg—up to the neck. All phrases I've heard, at one point or another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... ) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of ... seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this

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

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... nametag I’ve forgotten to remove. “Returning Student… Panelist?” one will ... . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , I manage to discombobulate the tiny bones in my wrist, and we all get ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a ... get the idea. If you don’t, there’s probably nothing else that I can say.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• 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 ... STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... most definitely many, many red apples I would be unable to see or wouldn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... ;In fact, I'm aiming to not have our presenters use clickers to advance

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school ... to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  . I also get an energy burst after gym time, so it’s nice to start off ... reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier ... ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• 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 ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... worked out that I'd get home with plenty of time to spare. As I started ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014