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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , where right now spring protections are the default constructed water ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... young as 5) are the ones who typically fetch water from rivers and streams

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  -niche of college, there are days where I am bona-fide-terri-fied of what life ... , we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly more ... Simmons Hall, originally built as a "Meditation Room" and where we held our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim ... of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’ve made and the people they’ve met are their favorite and even most powerful ... has grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents who are part ... older, he understood where this instant camaraderie came from--a shared

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  back-to-back classes do you have, and how far are they from each other ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are ... prerequisite chains. Some majors are famous for having several long chains, like

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  ’s horn. Then it hit me. Snow! I was so excited I made my roommate stay up ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in the freezer. It made all the cold worth it. [caption id

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  made to generate a huge square wave (40 Volts). There's a part where you ... the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... first place. At this time of year in many other classes, students are

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt ... had one. There are four TED talks I watched last night at 2:something

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... ago and you remember where you were then, it feels like it __must__ be ... experiences both horrifying and fulfilling to make it happen. There are plenty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position ... of English profiency, and that's only because all classes are administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... was led upstairs, where French House and a recently-baked chocolate cake ... oscillator. Sophie '14 and I are both taking 8.03, a class called "Waves and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are ... , don't forget who you are. Don't forget where you came from. Don't let ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  are you majoring in?  But there were other topics that we wouldn’t have ... where I came from anymore. If there’s one major takeaway I got from high school that wasn’t academic, it was gaining humility towards where I was

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  , where are you going to college? What are you going to major in? What ... accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I’ve been working all week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today ... Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about ... 's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my ... school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , especially at MIT. There are countless areas where this reckoning is needed ... to be and identifying where we are now relative to that goal. The ... entered (to my knowledge it is locked) where there are lots of miniature

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  requests, where newest requests are stored at index 0 and the requests are ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... . In lab, you are randomly paired with a partner, with whom you complete

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... 't, here's the description of what the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for ... asked for people who could make loud noises: one guy made a clicking sound

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013