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  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... hike was pretty typical for Washington trails. You hike from the forest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these past semesters have been quite a transformative experience for me; (maybe ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  for good, MIT is a quintessential expression of America at its best ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on ... nothing can change our commitment to tackling big, important problems for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... , because they're the ones who best know what they need. Now's as good a time as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... help promote the 'useful arts,' the 'arts' is short for 'artisanship,' as ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at ... right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  board with my foot, and minced up a baby mouse brain for papain digestion ... pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows ... were mean.) Figure out when you work best. I'm a morning person and have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... efficiently, by the time I woke up for the second time at 11am there was not ... this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys ... single sex. For example, my suite is all girls, so we have a single ... Mitra's, for example). The point is that there are all kinds of options

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... for the rest of the day because the spoon is angry. Jason has two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism ... my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie ... the people who moved through it, who are best friends years later; not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... this to the MoS staff member responsible for renting the facilities, and ... taking 7.01x first year for premeds if there are other science GIRs to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... summer. However, the resume I have is formatted for colleges and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022