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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 the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... , essentially telling the computer what toolpaths to take."]CAM[/annotation] model

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... , why am I writing this post? Why am I sharing it to you, rather than cryptically trying to talk about it without actually showing it so you don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer ... ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... morning, of the cold, sunny walks to and from the bus stop, and of the ... students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... -and-hopefully-improved-but-probably-not-yet courseroad 2.0, successor to blogger danny b.d. '15's courseroad which has many ... to plan out schedules when i have the time: student

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super ... few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you ... application process. After we denied her, I emailed her to tell her that I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... this class teaches you specifically how to write safe, well-verified, and

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

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... allowed me to stay calm, I started seeking help to manage my stress, and I ... 't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  straight face, I asked Jenn to go inside and get the sheet off the bed so that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the ... country. They go to school in Michigan, California, DC, down the street at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013