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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitching. I was part of a mass-layoff at work a couple weeks ago and have ... copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and skating are two notable ones) but some DID stick … and with an abundance of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... semester at a time, and see where that takes us. And, of course, write about

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  College Chapel   King's College Bridge of Sighs, St John ... ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... Photographer taking the survivor photo at St John's Another great perk of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still ... Class,” due to the existence of at least half-a-dozen millionaires among

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• 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

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  you an idea of what MIT projects could be like (at least for ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... 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

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... 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

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... friend and SEVT member Ben Glass '07 had somewhat of an explanation:   ... : The North American Solar Challenge. The race will begin July 17th in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007