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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ; ***   “Even if you can’t make it perfect, you can make it better ... Barbenheimer craze. That same night, we hunkered down in the Maseeh basement ... having revisited the movie in my first month at MIT, the themes were stark

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... student is whatever you do, because you are an MIT student," yet in the same ... . I hope that, by the end of this year, I can find definitive peace in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  best buddy, Maria (can you tell that we love our engines?) Maria's engine ... flywheel, cylinder plate, and bearing plates. Basically, you draw the design that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... times a week in the Stata Center, taught by Professor Bawendi; my 5.60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  continue to do this semester, but I hope you got the idea that summers in ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... lot of things that I've missed or forgotten about, so if you have any

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  remembers me as the person who kept saying, "I'm sorry, but when you say 'we', who do you mean?" Central Square Theater [CST] is not a traditional ... advertising in national publications. Of course, there is also the possibility

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... family during the holiday season. I love them – they can be connected in ... IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  cooking, pika is more than happy to match you with a Big Cook in case you ... as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve ... lovingly wiled away in pre-orientation activities of mostly inconsequential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... you will be in college, where you'll have the opportunity to really make ... one guy in the co-ed bathroom who will eventually think all you do is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can ... .m.s.s." Saturday Work feels kind of like high school, in the sense that you show up ... Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The End. ftw.

  

  Just in case you were wondering... As of 11:27 PM, I have completed every requirement for graduation from MIT. Excuse me while I go celebrate. =)

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs, we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  can feel surging past in the crowds of students making their way through ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all about it before- some of you have even lived it yourselves. In addition to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  , but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the ... all bulidings, can you walk without doubling back and without going ... my favorite room right now, in a one hour break between classes: 20

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... . Navigate how much pain you can take. Decide how much is ‘worth it,’ whatever ... dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  freshman year: You Will Be Surprised What You Can Do When You Are Forced ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... sentimental. It reads poorly. It clambers around in naivety, sending any

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022