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  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  loooong list of reasons for that, which we can go into some other time, or ... conviction I kind of came into MIT knowing, especially after growing up in Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  one of the 4,000+ undergrads. Even if you take the cross section of ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... various other news outlets, all of which contributed greatly to the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  isn’t a mess of criss-crossing copper wires? You’ve got conductive ... ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known as Patriots' Day, which falls on the third Monday of April ... with the hubbub of CP✱, this year's iteration of CPW, and my general

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  too), and he (apparently) wrote an absolutely stunning letter of ... of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I wasn't in charge of experimental design for this project, it's not like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... 's (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT students presenting ... resort by our hotel. I went snowboarding, while Anika went cross

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  highs and lows of being an MIT student and everything that comes with that ... spring break together and we kept filming. When I got back, I had a ton of ... of quarantine (March 2020). A lot of activities, such as badminton

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020