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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chemistry and 7 meant biology; I didn't know where building 4 was and that you ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  be 10x cooler if you could get that suggestion working; it would tell a ... (and hence gets the most credit), and the rest of the authors are ... hectic, but I had complete faith in the paper getting written in time, as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the ... If you've never seen "Hackers" then you're depriving yourself and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  essay for the Toast, "it never gets easier, you just get stronger," which ... Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of things: the MIT course catalog. You can find the most recent course ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  's kind of a coincidence; if you've read my course catalog history you ... be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... always looked so ahead of you is not that they were smarter, but because

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... with people through focused conversations or situations where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’s great if you can somehow avoid getting sick in the first place, but if you ... just got tired of taking better care of things I can replace...You can't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... processes happening around you! My labmate, Suehern during one of our ... parts of them). Pretty intense eh? Biochemistry labs Where I spent

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dorm. Walker was where you ate all of your meals and attended the weekly ... , which you can watch below. ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... claims. 4) you get a final decision of accept or reject ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... .nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  +. Are you sure we can handle it?” “Yes. We're only emotionally immature ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  contentedness. there are things that happen when you graduate. you get gently ... immediately so you get some trailing emails delegating tasks or announcing ...  stories of mental health at mit. if you would like to read it, it's called "the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... to Killian Court where our friends and families waited for us. Photo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was ... was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on campus why they chose to come to MIT, they’ll tell you that it was because

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020