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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend ... ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had the ability to see the apple, if you never have the chance to use that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this ... started innocently enough—trying to figure out when and how CPW started by ... the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that.But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  To understand this post, you need two important bits of context. First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... many Black women – women who have had to overcome many intellectual and ... . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017