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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... in your college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  -deprecating disclaimers aside... Things you will see in this video: angst, pretty shots of ... ," awkward faces Things you won't see in this video: a cohesive narrative of ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  work” motto rings differently when you can do that by asking someone who ... it fades. As you can tell it is already fading.  ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... ," Junot Diaz says, and I think about his full name in my head, like when you ... though they may just live in this universe that you've created, has wants

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken-to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... through their lovely writing. Anastassia's post, in particular, helped give ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• 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?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up:   Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  : We hope you will join us in reimagining this space as one that ... Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016