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  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  the walk down Mass Ave and thinking to myself "How far is this place ... . It's not that I didn't know how to hang out with girls. I love girls ... how us frosh do have some power to alter the culture of a floor. Of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  triangular pizza server to interrogate how large I wanted it to be. I kept ... thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  ’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many ... and ideas bouncing around in my mind but with no idea how to transfer ... introduction and a general idea of how I wanted to go about designing my figures

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party ... asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  meticulous schedules, or having a car. I don't know how to drive, I hate riding ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... . Greater Boston, depending on how you define it, is about the same size, with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... because I know how many problems an idea might face when it comes to ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  four semesters left. 2) I have to declare my concentration (every MIT undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  . I learned how to identify them based on their coos alone; for some ... " align="aligncenter" width="211"] Oh, how innocent it looks ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  carefree hours devoted just to think. Now, I ponder how the lives of these ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... of rain. Rat. Squishy soles. No time to stop. Enough time to smile

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  .  Other lecture topics: how to ice climb, how to snowshoe, and how to pee ... important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... , and how to color match a Patagonia jacket with an Arc'Teryx backpack

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... simultaneous conversations about: --how we should take a trip to Germany next ... buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Design, which taught students how to synthesize, model and fabricate a ... me: it was all project-based work that we did, because I learned how to ... institution is important to them and they like how diverse MIT has become. Today

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  about how to upload to this Athena locker, only Ben is a crazy Mac user ... you consider how puzzled I was by connecting my computer to the wireless ... for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it just much easier to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  my last week at MIT since they're a testament to how I feel about the ... how meaningful something is to you. Extrinsic motivation entails ... your goals. Goal Planning — consider how to intervene in the automatic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020