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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... -party type. I, for instance, haven't been to a frat party since early

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques ... scripts and formulas you can use. Base Knowledge For you to be able to ... , cover the pot and reduce the heat to low, let simmer for however long it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to ... , for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI ... impulsive. Just do it! I spontaneously decided to audition for an acapella

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... Knowing Things, it is still demoralizing when you need to be hand held for ... thinking that it might just be better for us to stop taking course 6 classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... I tried to go underwater to practice my breathing, I stayed down for ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over ... brain that’s always asking why. For example:  Why do I have to squeeze ... fasteners, to put it all together.  For example: I need to see if this pin

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria ... favorite rappers for R. who listens to American rap and acts like all the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023