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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... culture.  Something that makes the FLC really special is our incorporation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  and your community. The application for this year is closed but keep it ... earlier than when it's due/next one is released, but psets are hard for me ... sometimes we end up talking before or after the prayer for an hour or more

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  of October, and the semester is in full swing. I still have most of the ... ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don ... I did for the past three years in college because living costs don

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , that's at the root of it. For what it's worth, I enjoyed some ... Neurobiology Lab class, is arguably one of the most oh-god-I've-fallen-into-the ... membranes invisible for in vivo imaging. Thing is, we've gotten close to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  differences between this country and ours. For example, Canada uses the metric ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can’t say for sure when the Plague started, but I remember clearly the day it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... and general life skills without the stress of worrying about grades. For ... is not the greatest idea, especially if I plan on getting any sleep

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  time. worrying for the sake of worrying. it feels like such an ... over Y will make the people advocating for Y sad or disappointed in me ... , because unless you already have a well-defined plan for the future, you ain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen ... between the fruit-filled cookies known as Hamentashen and the fried potato pancake known as the Latke. Two teams of MIT experts will present their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  . This is even more ironic if you know that Building 54 is named the Green ... art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the ... hollow blue pipes, pointing at the Charles so that you could see the other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully ... on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs, grad school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ’m still not emotionally prepared for it.   but, again, the renovation is ... could tell you about Ring the Alarm, the dance show that my team is ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... store was empty, except for the owner and his friend, who looked at us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i ... have a minor foot injury, the correct response is to pretend that nothing ... better care of my body: the first is drinking water more regularly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... through Rush at all, at least for more than a few flashy events. Those who ... fraternity (for example, because you have too many extracurriculars on your

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the ... the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... good school based on how everyone spoke of it, but that was, for the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  .005, 6.006 is hard, as evidence by the picture below which went semi ... is going to be my favorite class this semester. The one downside is ... quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... it doesn't hurt that our pantry is stocked with Sugarpova, the gourmet ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the ... the student center, for dinner during his all-night vigils in lab. And I was just thinking, UROP (pronounced "yer op"), is actually one of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006