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  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  stood. That'll show my mom not to call my drumming a nuisance ... , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  ", this class focuses on how materials behave when you load them to failure ... able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... guy to get to listen to my professors talk about how it all works and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all ... . Additionally, they run a series of IAP classes, covering everything from how to ... keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  camera. Hey, I'm not a morning person, and I can't remember to do ... this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... .370 Robocraft competition); I think he wanted to find out how he could join the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... of it all. Aside from holding Mary Oliver close to the heart, how might ... maybe I have come to understand, to believe, how we witness makes our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how ... my friends about "am I really happy? How do I know if I'm happy or not ... that that means I'm not. I want next semester to be full of these same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , but students do not have assigned seats and are encouraged to move ... : 42 graduates are well-equipped for the workforce. They know how to ... they know how to thrive in an environment that pushes for constant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected ... consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  &T has step-by-step instructions here. Lesser known is how to use Gmail to ... this nice little video I've made showing you how to log on to MIT ... I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... ; how to navigate the cycles of work and rest? I am supposed to be ... think they are well and good. I am burning out, hard, and not sure what to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  ’m realizing how many similarly slow ways I myself have grown. In the day-to ... scores of new people met and new friends made, I’ve learned how to make ... new club position, I've learned how to navigate new responsibilities

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  Dining Plan each semester, and you are not permitted to opt out of it ... 's Dixie Roadhouse Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse Not Your Average Joe's Claim to accommodate GF diners (I have not been to these): On the Border Burton's Grill

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... open; there is no period where students are not allowed to live on campus ... are not considered 'complete'?" T.S, I haven't yet secured someone to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  known how to MIG weld. However, I did not. I had been trained on TIG ... 'll burn holes you don't yet know how to fix — but not too quickly, or else ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he ... adamant about not trying to explain his exact project. Boris did, however ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  do not need to have your scores at MIT by January 1st. We will have ... unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004