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  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  continuing it as an alum, but I decided that it'd be good for someone new to ... freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won't be returning to my beloved 254 suite in Burton-Conner, hanging out with

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... entail? A timer. For example, a wash cycle generally takes 36 minutes to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions, reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any ... progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  sheet deep enough for you to support yourself on, and kicking spikes on ... . Looked like we were going to be in for quite a bit colder than the ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around for nearly 40 years. The mission to advocate for LGBQT members of MIT ... positive environment for LGBQT students and to raise awareness of related

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for ... to the MIT community and thanked me for coming to learn more about the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where ... since the most common way to work together didn’t work well for me, I was ... papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  program and to visit family, Boston/California for my UROP, and Ethiopia for ... say hi to my grandmother.   October Back to MIT for the fall ... now I'm half of it. Lots of fun robots to play with here!  Thanks for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -candy guns, just to name a few. The space has tons of resources for tinkering ... so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... whole "cover letter" routine and hope for the best while trying not to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a ... my dresser, waiting to be picked up. It had been there for over a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... utterly thrilling. Unfortunately for us, we had a train to catch almost ... picture above) but also because I want so badly for the words to be true. My

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has ... BC. I'll check to see who's around, hang out for a bit. I'll make tea ... my younger friends ask me for advice, I'm able to give it. I barely go

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an ... , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  , spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006