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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  At MIT, every student has an advisor — in fact, throughout their time here, every student will have multiple advisors! It starts in freshman year with our first-year advisors; once…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year, one of my friends from hall,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very contemplative lately. In my…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It’s been a “pset, sleep, blog –– pick two” kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I’ll…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth – Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar Halperin, Etienne Abelin Notable highlights on my calendar the past two weeks. An adaptive skateboard for 6.810 final project. Spent over…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races, religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in, and sometimes in the middle…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe’s to do my grocery shopping. There’s two nearby, but the…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever family friends gushed over their…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule expiring, so…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It’s been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT application. In the…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  “While Mens et Manus may be our decree when heard outside the school…here it’s parete legi novembri …OBEY THE NOVEMBER RULE” — Hack Punt Tool It’s November 1st. Hopefully all…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ITS SPOOKY SEASON (complete) A spoopy piece of content every day for the month of October.

  

  It will usually be a meme but maybe I’ll find an article or something idk. Thanks Jessie for this idea 10/1 10/2 10/3 10/4 10/5 10/6 10/7 10/8 10/9 10/10…

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 and Carry On 👑   A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th,…

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

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, “What’s quizbowl?” So of course I had to say,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is a design class with a project every week. The first four projects involved using CAD software to design 2d…

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I’m going to share…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018