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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story ... the end of the semester (or at least the end of some arc I can’t see yet ... year of settling into whatever “role” I play at MIT. For instance, since

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  out of the stud at 6am after pulling an all nighter during finals week ... supervisor a quick email: At exactly 9am the first day of Week 4, I dashed ... the skin of my teeth and sent my supervisor the final changes at 3:53pm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  winnings of 500%, I will never gamble again in my life. Anyway, I was at ... a full account of my activities at home later on, or maybe not. Anyway ... very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... face.     Pistol At MIT, we do a lot of things differently ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’ve taken at MIT have had at most 20 pages of writing, and those were for ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the ... pigeons to stuff into those boxes (i.e. friends), then at least two of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  make at least one good group of friends. This is not easy. Peoples ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do ... happen is set at a bare minimum of two months. That being said, there are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  Stata, at least from the front (don't look at the back of the structure ... 're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here. Much of yesterday was spent baking 15 sheets of gingerbread, each 12"x18

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  't have gained without taking the class. At the core of probability is ... really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  . We walked all the way to Central Square, surprised at the number of ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  stomach hurt, I was out of breath, and my butt was NOT happy at bumping over ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... installed solar panels." "Ninjas at MIT used solar panels to attack the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023