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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... Missouri, and I enjoyed the peace, friendliness, and comfort that came with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice hours considerably. And I made a dragon sword! First we had some lessons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  , excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with people, and those peopled filled with eagerness, then silence, then ... Teodoro (of UMass Boston and United We Dream), and Junot Díaz (author

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  get to know someone. We can talk about institutional change and the ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy ... Splendor or Carcassonne, and if we get enough people we could play Modern Art

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907.0625 floor tiles. There are 960.296875 wall tiles, 439.1875 floor tiles, and 70 ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my hair shorter and he grew his hair out, it was like we were in high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and beloved professors at the institution. 8.01L met in the basement ... quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... and brightest... and I'm a bit worried that I'm not as bright and shiny

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  —a combination of "autonomy," "self-reliance," and " ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  attend something very cool: my very first academic conference! And also as ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  move on, don't drag them back down into an unhealthy state of sorrow and ... 's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs. Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... , because both EC and BC didn't have air conditioning in individual rooms and ... (Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups) rent their available

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015