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• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college. Naturally, when I got to campus two weeks ago, one of my first priorities was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT ... ? So I went to bed, and the next day I woke up, and I was like: “Gasp

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , etc., but were only ever able to practice those things independently ... high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a purely academic high school. So, we really wanted college to have classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify ... some international work. I’ve gotten to advise government departments

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... turned to hobbies, making things with my [annotation note="mens et manus am

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  . Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1 ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good ... decision. I tend to go to bed pretty early these days, which precludes me from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that ... traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren ... word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to ... -shaped, unsuspecting brick building on the side of Mass Ave next to a shady gas station

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on ... 's living communities. And that's why I'd like to showcase/preserve some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  :)     The statement reads, Tarnished Horizons Dedicated to the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to ... strongly encourage the MIT administration to step away from embracing the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... algorithm-based sensory attachment that connects to any footwear insole, uses high-precision radar and real-time GPS to automatically avoid obstacles

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... have learned that happiness, to me, is books, rivers, forests

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  week-long program for sophomores during IAP, however, since I trained to ... in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014