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• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  that two people both ordered food for the event. I was worried we would ... they'd leave. I waited on some random sidewalk for another fifteen ... laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no ... scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be friends for life. i thought this was it. i thought you ... once i got out of here. that i would make you feel sorry for ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for ... I don't like for the sake of getting it? I knew of 21E, but I had my ... pursuing computer science careers? or am I thought as lesser than for not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... differently for me on the train ride back, it struck me that not getting into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when ... this post']writing essays,[/annotation] this is the distraction post for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  had lots of leftovers for the next day too! We also made this same ... ingredient. We didn't have the red lentils that the dish called for, only ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  tea for that matter) is an absolute no for me, perhaps because I ... his assistants take us out for (free) bobas, and sadly I couldn’t make ... entirely new world underwater. If not for the vast wealth of knowledge

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  different. Granted, we’ve had this option for the past three semesters and ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for ... blogs, for example. But with that said, it definitely was cool to meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin”. But even though two women were the team captains, for two years, we were ... I am completely confident only want the best for my success. My UROP

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  enjoyed the class and think it was well worth it for getting my feet wet ... structures, and they also have similar pronunciations for many words. Some ... . shinmun), and many more. This is because both the readings for these words

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  after living here for three years). She took me to the Maisonette, then ... I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... quarter mile from French House to the heart of campus) for... Meeting #1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013