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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill in our names and sizes. I realized right away what they had done. They

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... 't burn any holes in the actual seat tube, I welded that. The welds weren

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  MITMUNC"]Model UN,[/annotation] [annotation note="In the rare and brief ... In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... 's admissions process better than random? Say you weeded out the un-qualified (the ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... her infractions and all in real life. Okay, no way, Ana Lucia rocked ... in Resident Evil. Oh man she was awesome in Resident Evil. Anyway, yeah

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  renovated, and with the greater investment in the buildings came more ... paint freely in a removable way. emphasis on removable. unfortunately ... with it, which is why the discussion feels very much incomplete. in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  Last Friday in my [annotation note = "my first-year humanities ... ’ll provide an excerpt of that excerpt here, where, in describing his outdoorsy ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  also kept burning them in the forge so at the end I had 1 un-melted nail ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said some rather controversial, if not just blatantly offensive, things in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life ... two acronyms ingrained in my head. They’re the ones that defined my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... universities in metropolitan Boston that were listed on Wikipedia

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  ...that does sound about right. What I did was google search what I thought it ... , once I read your comment I googled it again, and now that entry I wrote ... neither can google, so it's ok. Curtis: Though I actually have a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  getting this far. In the meantime, hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories ... past week.  But say you’re psetting under the dome in the [annotation ... pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve ... lovingly wiled away in pre-orientation activities of mostly inconsequential ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm ... States. That day, I'd gone running in Flagstaff, then secured a free trial ... serve. I wrote huddled in the back of my car, an orange minivan with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022