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• Blog / How to Human

  what to pack for the dorms but non-extensive so pls don't blame me if u forget ur toothbrush

  

  fall I found a way! A Mattress Topper: One of the main reasons I won ... most of my studying outside of my room). Genuinely the most functional piece of decor out there  A speaker: A very underrated essential! The

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 8, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... OOOoo! 20.320 Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems The boring

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... transgender students in the college application process. One of the biggest ... admittedly do not know all of the answers. Thus, I thought I’d be transparent

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ="as you may have gathered by the use of past tense so far"] And yet,[/annotation] I’ve decided to drop the class. This decision came after days of ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The vast majority (the remaining handful courtesy of dear friend Ethan M. '20

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... more here. So, one of the classes that I feel I did really enjoy here was 5.111, fundamentals of chemical principles. I think the thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... field, gyroscopic rate of a spacecraft, and the angle of the sun (using ... work internally, but I’d like to find out, which is one of the reasons I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I ... ="attachment_118325" align="aligncenter" width="450"] the initial state of my room (i ... —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... aspects of academic life. The thing about tests is not really that they're hard. They just kind of suck. You can spend three hours the night before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... but today. They have good shakes and the rest of the food is pretty mid

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you ... . Closer! EVEN CLOSER! Perfect. This little piece of the rock is made

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... !!! this is the end of the honeymoon phase. cue the fights. cue the ... i know nothing about cooking whatsoever. i've been feeding off of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... is the pinnacle of what science fiction shows should look like ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012