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

  

  at seemingly random moments. Yet still, I’m faced with the dread of ... the year a daily user of DeviantArt, a site that at the time was ... sneak out of your snug apartment at midnight, to go somewhere you’ve never

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  available. And now, a selection of various dishes I have made this semester at ... vide the roll in rabbit bone stock at 139 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours. Chill roll, then slice into desired thickness. Bake at 375 degrees

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not ... instead of a confused freshman. It will feel incredibly strange at first ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a ... particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  me before. But at the same time, I realized that in the midst of my ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It ... glanced at the stone passageway in front of me, my bicycle locked to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  coaster at East Campus, won a game of Scrabble, not done laundry, jumped on ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... at MIT, and it's clear that the insanely complex flavors of this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... ;-- this at least I am proud of. 2. Eat N2 ice cream - you are not allowed ... President Hockfield - as a matter of fact, I did this my very first week at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of ... . I looked at the team names and I felt nothing. No spark of excitement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... . Following 2011’s attempt at a railroad permit, this is the second year of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009