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  Off to Zambia

  

  are few latrines in the village, but before more can be built, all the ... everything that seems "wrong" or "missing" really is. See you in February! ... 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  -language tour guide said, "You can tell the new architecture from the old ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... picture of a broken chains statue that I saw on a postcard. You can normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  somewhere, even if you can't see it. And maybe even the belief in it is more ... moments in romantic relationships and even in friendships when you look over ... gratitude that you’re in each other’s lives. like, sometimes i look at my best

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT, I hope for you, sometime in these past years, I've drawn some of the ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  -contained and you can get full meals from any single station, there's nothing stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... -10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  , sharing in its energy, and talking to strangers you will probably never meet ... gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... walk across Storrow Drive, you can get to Boston Common where this summer

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  degree. Currently, you can get these in Chemical Engineering, Electrical ... , in case you might be wondering, almost every engineering course does ... the same as an Master of Science, which you would get in most two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  talked about random stuff in small open groups. MIT stuff like "Are you pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in ... relevant to life at MIT in 2005 than talking to pre-1970 alums. And if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  Environment. As an MIT student, you can cross-register for classes at Harvard ... to be doing it on someone else’s dime. Traveling can help you learn ... around the world. If you are interested in studying abroad at MIT, the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last ... new room on my hall next week, and I'll try to take some pictures so you can see a bit of the East Campus interior. I'll also be starting some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... when classes let out. In mid-November and in late January every year ... seasons go by.) When this happens, the setting sun can be seen from the far
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  is the Morris water maze. In a nutshell, you put the mouse into a ... , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... wrong arm. So generally, when you go around knocking out genes in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... freshman, wherever this summer may take you, remember to exist in the present

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  they are. You can say this or that school is better in this or that department or this or that way, but you can never say this person is better or smarter than any other. People will surprise you. **In fact, there’s this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  beautiful and fancy things when you are a full time student living in a ... -ing bricks); there are no sharp edges. You can run your hand over every piece ... you attach a piece of sandpaper so you can sand wood faster and without

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... quarter (about 2 months). You can also gain points for PE courses taken ... request] Kudos to you and your eagle-eyed observation skills! Indeed, I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007