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  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... fun to write, but I don't want it to come across as one of those "the ... general. Biology at MIT (what? why? how?) + cool stuff going on in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  Hi folks, I know it's been forever since I've posted anything; I ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  people who are interested in double-majors, if only because it's a little ... one major, it's not as difficult -- you can pretty much plan on taking four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... market closed this IAP. I refreshed the web page regularly to check its hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  classes i was taking, and how hard i was trying. but it's a nasty little ... . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid-cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  with clinical depression since late december. here's how that went: during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go ... . it turns out it wasn't covid, as multiple negative pcrs and rapids

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  actually, it has an answer: how about BRUCE CAMPBELL DOING A BOOK SIGNING AT ... . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  joys of hot glue; it's been a feature of my costumes since. I love how ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  expectations from how it was advertised, which was frustrating, because it felt ... this doesn't quite capture how SHINY and NICE it is now... i'm also going ... wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  will ever feel as far as that walk [annotation note="Looking it up now ... Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 ... that class starts 5 minutes later and ends 5 minutes earlier than its

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

   again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming freshman! It's appropriately called Freshman Arts Program and inappropriately abbreviated FAP. Yep that is the acronym. But us counselors embrace it and make

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape ... !) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and ... the season comes into its own, we will be hit suddenly, full force, by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the ... more (it's hard to keep track of what everyone is doing.) We spend most ... building) won by a long shot. So, yes - we slept at work. A janitor judged us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... though it’ll still be less leisurely than last term, when I didn’t have ... Wednesday" (as it was), it should not be due at 1:00am. Indeed, I hadn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... "sections" named after long-deceased Institute alumni (Wood, Hayden, Munroe ... built or planned, and it's about eighty years old. It's been renovated a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  you who have never heard of Goldman Sachs, it is one of the world largest and oldest investment banking companies. It employs 14,000 people ... .) He immediately stated that it was a good program and that he saw it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... it past first semester of freshmen year without being comfortable with

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... required to by MIT"]flu shot[/annotation] and felt so...distant? maybe it was ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020