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  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... that I can recall, I've received something that flies. I learned to fly r

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  not limited to: crying multiple times suffering violent diarrhea ... when newly admitted prefrosh come to visit MIT (elsewhere called Admit ... undergrad experiences. It’s a weekend that’s supposed to help you choose

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to ... /criticize anyone for what they've done. Instead, I'm going to give you the facts, as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  final presentations and write-ups to the PI that explain the data taken ... to use it. the procedure for running Artemis is fairly automated so I will be heading over to IAC-80 (80cm telescope) at some point and then

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... have to tweak the code, tweak the bot, line the bot back up, and try ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  1/3/22 The sentences just didn't seem to flow as I attempted ... semester ends, it's pretty customary to write something about how the term ... about what to write. It felt like I barely knew what happened. So I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  of Burton Conner. REX, which was from August 29 to September 1st, is the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... about our history and traditions is crucial to sustaining the culture we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... , was held to address the ethical implications of research done at MIT.    The Tech has published numerous articles criticizing MIT’s ties to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  wanted to be an interior designer. When I was 15, I decided I actually wanted to become an economist. That one actually stuck. My parents come ... from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter, president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016