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  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  ARE HARD Sophomore year: What? Classes start tomorrow and there ... be nonsense. Junior year: Ha! A few days before classes started, I made ... . BRING IT. Where did all of that energy come from? I'd say it came from

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  Fishburne). * A lot of people made a big deal about Ben's supposed "4.0 GPA ... very end of the movie) are completely only present in the movie. To be ... -school" scenes are filmed at BU. (see more detail below). * The movie features

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , 2024, but better posted late than never! Here are several bloggers ... our Notion page. Here’s the first part of it: Also made a fitting ... . Here are some excerpts: we did it :) also, i find it cute that the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are ... chopping now!) and repertoire. I've made chicken Bruschetta bakes, chicken ... Ethiopian dish, as well as Squashagna (lasagna made of yellow squash and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  strongly recommended for students are the one case where MIT Medical has made ... incoming freshmen and their parents are working on their insurance plans for ... prefrosh and their parents are choosing a medical plan right about now, so I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  just outside generally), here are my highlights from my trip and all the things it made me feel.   ***   DALI: DISRUPTION AND ... descriptions of how his life and the surrealist movement are shown in the works

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of person, it's what are you building? building? did you mean to ask about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  , piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are ... to three piercing studios around MIT. Here are my experiences from each ... procedure and jewelry. Once at MIT, I did some research about where to get

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an "advising seminar." (There also used to be RBA/residence-based advising, where ... "Prosody: The Music of Language" -- there are so many that it takes two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  -- after our family friends from Australia moved out of California. They are ... hundreds of companies are recruiting on campus right now. It's only been less ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  , there are only a couple more female students. And when I visit Harvard, only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit ... why male privilege and the gender wage gap are bad. “It’s awful and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  this semester. 9.12, 24.900, and WGS.271 are all writing intensive classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication ... . Or as she said, "It's good to know where you can be better, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second ... hang out some more with the 254 (Burton Conner suites are all numbered, so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  , but I haven't thought about where that food comes from. This semester I ... heat, slice, and you've just made your own healthy energy bars! Another ... ensures that they are active. To make a whole bunch of yogurt: pour a gallon

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  are individually relatively weak and unstable but can combine to ... million dollars later, Karp and his collaborators had made a new polymer ... using the same processes that are used to make computer chips, utilized

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  , it's very much true. At MIT, the courses are not just fast-paced; they ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... because one sentence in it made me chuckle: "It's the start of yet another

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  -ended questions that are designed to spur internal dialog. This is where life ... schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... they are not looking, but that's another entry). So call mom and/or dad

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with ... 's been okay so far. the labs are fun, despite being intense, and i like ... , and what made it worse is that they would straight up lie to people

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So ... and Technology Initiatives has been giving out free food. While I was

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  this is the version of gameplay where you are encouraged to take as few ... is where you go and try to get those high Tetrises.  I think there are ... memory to know where they are. I’ve never been able to wrap my head around

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024