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• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... definitions of the word. However, you know what I mean. They are simply people ... the exact same when I came to MIT. I would have a good amount of friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... in the new ideas section of the binder. I think if I am being ... this: if you are completely ignorant of what's in the ocean and all you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my ... the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example ... ones we used in 6.2050. Surprisingly, most of the code we write in 6.S ... first time that Joe is offering 6.S965. It’s admittedly not the most

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which ... eat a yogurt parfait made of the following: One sliced banana 1 ... sodium and high in protein and fiber!  It also meets about 20% of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They ... of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... opera, or was that just me?) We spent the first ten minutes of class or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... inescapable truth will catch up with you. You’ll use up all of the S^3 support ... sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... relationship with the city and Chinese culture (which I also wrote about of ... international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... to your friends and pick up the pieces of your cancelled events, moving

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  ourselves. The head lecturer, Andy MacInnis, had a lot of woodworking ... other topics, he brought in various experts: one of the TAs had worked in a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems ... . At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue ... uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023