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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that ... somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... home to nine different floors with unique cultures, histories, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the ... with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... Dark Materials and the residents of our universe know these particles as ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually vulgar conversations and the stupid, stupid things we care about–we’re just ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling '07 and I went ... who built giant marble and stained-glass memorials that have long since fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and ... exercise. I've written about grad school and/as the Boston marathon, the challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of ... jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  university classes, making university friends, and writing university finals. I ... end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  succeed in high school, and depart for universities around the country and ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had ... first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020