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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  was brutally cold, and sightseeing was not desirable. I did, however ... ocean for my second boat ride was even more inspiring. If a boat is not ... Haymarket is a not the most tourist-appropriate location. On Friday and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... , not a single path, and you may or may not have gotten a chance to ... . Math is not memorization—in fact, the human subject of this blog post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... Residence Exploration period, starting with those you might not have already ... headphones and audio source! 20:17 - 24:17 Random Hallsmeade It's not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  worked. I was reasonably good at everything I did, and great at a few ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... smells fishy. I never harbored any suspicions that I might not be straight

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . [caption id="attachment_63747" align="aligncenter" width="194"] this is not ... 're not registered for it. This helps when you're shopping for classes ... place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... . Twenty feet, not even two buildings, not even one. The friend who I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  of their collection and spotted yoshitomo nara works, along with some ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... ). Sorry, Harvard friends! Please keep cross-regging (not sarcastic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits ... just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door ... semesters, but not like this. Not being able to do things I care about, with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  .[annotation note="I wrote some original work, too, and posted it on the Not ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... remember now? What made her tick? I curse myself for not bothering to journal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... because there has never been someone to explain that they were working ... . BSU is constantly working for our best interest, the National Society of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just ... . I’ve kept on working on the new book I’ve been thinking of, and I ... from this post, it’s simply this: do not dig open a grave in real life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  coast for my freshman fall, I was terrified. I had no clue how things worked ... not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  notice, the office will be working remotely, will not reopen until at least ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... ’s behind the cabinet, so he’s not really visible, is named Tim, after Tim the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the classrooms, and work on some sustainable projects of my own. One afternoon ... relatives are is not determined strictly by blood or by who gives birth to who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... of what your decision may be, you have not failed nor succeeded in life

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  between yoga and powerlifting. For me, [annotation note="But not injurious ... long day's work, Selam went home, and the next day I went out and put the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not ... night while we were working on an assignment we all got confused over ... ="107520" image3="107521" /]   And last but not least, the final instructor

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014