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• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... lifetime of disadvantage and I needed to do it as fast as possible ... some of the content before, on day 1, I already feel behind. Even if that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the ... and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It ... 's another topic). One of my teammates was commenting on how frustrating it ... and good grades. But what's more compelling than a laundry list of sub

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... 't write funny or interesting commentary on life (unlike Bruce Campbell's #1 ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  they're pretty good.) On a slightly related topic - as I was ... really bland, but with some spray-on stuff and crafty use of a Dremel tool ... brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... chapters of the novel I’d written in summer and received good feedback. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  whole new style and way of moving. This team also gave me some of my ... is a great place to try out a variety of new styles.   Good luck ... way to meet lots of dancers. I also was interested in Mirchi since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... awesome, and had been reserving a spot on the Esplanade right in front of ... for orchestra easily enough, although it's not on my copy of Queen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  of new music and old. there were several points when i couldn't stop ... experienced on the east side. the most prominent example of this is that i'm now ... school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Team would always find itself ranked the highest. A good amount of ... . To learn new skills RT requires skills in so many areas. One of the ... /LOX engine ready for hot-fire, and is currently working on the design of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  spent on taking a picture of a guitar and making it look like a digitally ... all the projects on this list. It was sort of annoying that we didn ... For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... . On that first day in the orphanages, after taking in the state of ... colored with some children. Most of them quickly crowded all the new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... :30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... . For many of us simply going for the A isn't good enough, we are going ... MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... autumn leaves, the winter Ice, and the bikes on Memorial drive; Words of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my ... were beautiful. Standing on one of the wooden ledges, I had a clear view ... lectured on the immorality of thievery. She studied me for a little while

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  , and Crossroads meet in the proverbial octagon on the second floor of the ... is I! Yes I will be sitting on the panel of three judges along with ... ://lmc.mit.edu/battle. Battle of the Bands is put on by the MIT Live Music Connection ( http

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical ... the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of ... before it can be sold, because supply chains don’t have a way of figuring

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022