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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... a store right in the heart of Central Square, [annotation note='Or about 662 smoots, i.e. less than twice the distance of the Mass Ave Bridge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... half million dollars. Under the tutelage of Professor David Wallace ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other ... 's another lie. I know some of the feelings I've felt. I don't know all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... wanted to take to see controls from the electrical systems point of view ... robust foundation before foraying into the wilds of complicated nonlinear

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... Reddit. Here are two of my favorite. The more and more I designed and

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... milestone was a physical model of the laser cutter for technical review. We

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the ... the other side of the beaver (we flip our brass rats around after ... finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow ... of real places at MIT. From there, as the resident Mechanical Engineer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree ... As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... swallow any sort of intelligent thought that had survived the oxygen ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016