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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... to cook, or contract histoplasmosis while exploring a cave. Looking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ’d bought from China a year prior. They took months to arrive and I loved them ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent ... -Africa Interest Group (MAIG) meeting, which we attended in order to find people who ... conversation in a library was going to become real. Our contacts we met through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  this amounts to less than a year. I guess prior experience in competitive ... . The Sauce Melt butter, stir in flour to make a brown roux. Add veal ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  decided to concentrate in Chinese , MISTI-China was the logical follow-up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... finding authenticity – the feeling of being in a completely different world

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Rico) to work on a project that would improve the quality of life in his ... more confidence in my ability to create more interesting solutions to a ... or control theory prior to taking the class, but 6.832 helped me find a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... departments, so you’re bound to find something that interests you. Bear in mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... , incredibly fortunate to receive a fellowship that makes graduate school in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview ... to have another reason to visit.   Every Thursday I have a check-in ... cheddar soup in a breadbowl #goodlifechoices 7:47pm walk to Suffolk

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... also super convenient to many, such as those who require more food in a ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... area, which means you’re bound to find people your age interested in the ... together to solve some problem in a short period of time, are happening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you up to 1 email a day until you find “unsubscribe.” You will want a ... signals to my body. Dangerously low. Lower. Gone. Time to find a charging ... obstacle to attain victory in a glorious prank war. And a friend who listened

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that ... ."]ectousBiologistus,[/annotation] reacts in ashtonishment to a series of mathematical equations This project

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... me she heard about a daycare in the town next to ours that had job

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... , which helps a lot in deciding between them. With access to syllabi, you ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... context, used to indicate a family of multiple similar subjects, varying in ... dorm, in addition to being residents of the dorm's community. A dorm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008