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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... hear freshmen doing that sometimes, and it makes me sad. I wish I had ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... something that I found very comforting: “in my experience” (and trust me â ... a couple months ago, and chatted with a professor who told me that to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  interrupted one night last week when a gas attack of nearly the size and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother ... vividly full of color. It precipitates pigment. It does not surprise me ... ’t notice until someone else pointed them out to me. And that’s why its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... or skiing and me staying home to work. I wouldn’t do that. If I could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... .08, after Raymond and Aiden had convinced me that I should just do it because ... :00-2:30 section, which was kind of a relief since I didn't want Raymond seeing me

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... . Reflecting on how MIT has changed me (and as a result, how I view this ... ’ll never know the counterfactuals. There’s no alternate-universe-self for me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... this for me. I did not think that whatever it was that I saw on ... ”, multiple or frequent interactions. Storytime (don’t laugh at me please

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  if you are, like me, on the edges of weighty but possibly ... , terrifying expanse of adult life stretched before me. There are no longer any ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  article that actually made me go like this:  <-- (I actually look like

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the ... inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  cream with me in the Mass General cafeteria. Graduate students get lonely ... me to coach the squad, at least nominally. Mostly I think I just tell ... anniversary, he designed a mouse brain model in Solidworks and printed it for me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... Bryan Adams. Adam sang to me (off-key) during the entire dance. We got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  . I hoped they couldn’t see me typing all this into my phone. 21W.755 ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the life of me remember the title of the book or text, but he says

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... Corridor. (Photo courtesy of Yan.) For some reason this hack struck me ... . For me, the Save Point hack was one of these. The simple phrase "You may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Boston weather)! from left to right: Karen C. '20, me, Miles J. '20 ... , helped me become friends with one of last year’s ring comm members, which I ... let me actually stop before finishing the 2nd half of the sentence, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  Paper Airplane Book (none of which, they tell me, have yet made it past ... . (Later they tell me that they had been playing spoons with giant bowling ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015