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  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  quick 30 minutes. I remember every time I would talk about something ... . Why was I embarrassed for losing a chess game with no stakes nor ... how my nose twitched with frustration as I hit "Yes, I would like to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach ... “wasn’t too bad” thirty seconds before it hit). We were apparently ... ’m [annotation note='and giving them free advertising on the blogs now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  opera for FREE? With that said, if we are watching actors on stage telling ... for undergrad and grad students who are passionate about or practice any ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... shared stories of broken toes and bicycle catastrophes, I thanked God for ... lifelong injury-free streak, was well oddly comforting to me. When I was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be hugely important for your health and happiness, as well as your academic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  WTBS [now TBS] for his station, and contacted the MIT radio station with ... allowed by the FCC, Turner and the lawyers for both stations found a legal ... condition that WTBS-FM would apply for and receive new call letters. Turner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  thus the five exams and psets followed quickly after - but it was totally ... orientation (the week before classes start for freshmen). FAP involves spending ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  go for a walk / visit the rest of boston / see the city and refuse to ... different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  about myself, for a while. i felt better for days, weeks, even. but then ... behind. did you ever think about how awful it felt for them? dan: don ... for kidnapping. cj: it was ridiculous, frankly. alan: but it happened

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... eating was free, how much I cooked, and how much I bought. I thought making ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent ... good. I spent all of 2020 cooking for myself, starting from when I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be free food and interviews. I dubbed the event The Red Carpet Premiere. On

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  a year's worth of collected bubble wrap for 10 minutes, consumed ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... prestigious centre that takes students from all over the subcontinent for MBAs

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... me, eyes closed, until I felt the wheels hit the tarmac. I have never ... Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because ... I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021