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• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  back to my country (Peru) for a year, I began feeling homesick once again ... piece of my heart that I'd like to share with my fellow international

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... of my brain (you know, through orientation, random upperclassmen ... prospective students (side note: they’re actually my favorite part of campus! oh

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... arbitrary criteria without doing any research into them. Here were my ... representative as possible, I not only included my own thoughts and opinions, but I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... of: both own fancy hats....)     p.s. my patronus is a ... struggling on deciding what exactly this is a metaphor for in my personality

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... to my mom, her initial opinion of this was sort of like, “that just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  France. My own research explores the human impact of job loss in a former U ...  an example, I’ll discuss my own work with a performance of “The Merchant of ... me.   That is my lightning overview of the lightning talks. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  pause my hectic day to lug home armfuls of groceries. Alas, the produce ... has worse location, hours, prices, and selection. As a result, my ... . Below, I’ve compiled some of my favorite options: Near MIT Farmers markets

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... some of them before. Grove Labs came to speak at my 15.390 New Enterprises class, one of my friends now works at RapidSOS, and I got to attend

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years at MIT is my friend Julie Legault. Julie is an artist, designer, and ... 've always wanted to make my own little world and I think bioengineering cells

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  . Passing on their way to greater adventures. Here, I can trace my college ... . Now the sun is on the brink of rising. So I must hide in my bed for sleep. Then to open my eyes to the surprises of a new day. Of a new week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is ... the team. So here goes: my stab at a success profile, heavily informed by my experience in project classes, UPOP, and at companies.  Whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  one you have already sent) in RA. What are my chances in Regular Action ... characterized by this kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN ... Wednesday to rest my eyes and brain. From Thursday, December 25th, to Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls ... do. Nick H. '18, a friend on my floor, moved into a mostly-white room ... fact is that my walls are disappointingly bare. I'm a failure, I know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  have to design and execute such a beautiful display. My friend Jamal E ... , people gradually scattered, and, as soon as my friends and I had made it ... , my friends and I are staying inside, watching World Cup games, making

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  Unified lounge (my home-away-from-French House), spontaneous upperclassmen ... abroad.   As my name tag suggests, ask me about teaching abroad! Here are ... summer after my freshman year I went to Germany for two months as part of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  all over my second 8.022 (Introductory Physics Electricity ... weeknight, which ended up being much better for my test than studying for it ... reason: two (TWO) performances with my a cappella group, the MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier ... out of the scope of lectures and recitations. Here are my tips for ... tutors in and they match you with their volunteers. A bit worried my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written ... wrote on a crazy rainy day-- I thought I lost my ID, but it was really under the cover of my laptop all along. (I spent too much time running

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012