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  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... popular of my ideas was an adjustable platform boot that could lift a person ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... , and affordable groceries within a reasonable distance of their home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  -MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST, or one of the best MD-PhD programs ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  one universe at a time. And that's OK. I am still scared of grad school ... easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  include some subset of capital, labor, technology, and human capital. When I ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015