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  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... kitch, lots of skits and picture drawing for my taste, I have learned an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  format. Some of these went [annotation note="if you know..you know"]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... results of that week. Tuesday: 2-1 win against Coast Guard Thursday: 1 ... were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy:) ~~~ Table of Contents The Beginnings The Planning Phase What I Made and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... we all know what happened in March 😬 So all of that beautiful wood sat ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021