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  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  first experimental class in the “standard” 8 path. Most 8s take it [annotation note="hence the Junior in the name"]Junior Fall[/annotation] after ... skills. Practically, this means many small tasks in areas such as

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... ’s okay, too. For now, just float on, and we’ll see you back here in March. In this world, concrete flowers grow Heartache, she only doin' what she

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... principal confirmed the graduates, through the authority vested in them from ... , I talk about Diana's Baths, a series of waterfalls in North Conway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... forecast, stay cool, and have fun in CPW!

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  we're all scattered across the country in quarantine, we thought the ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for [annotation note="In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I've heard stories from my grandparents about their memories ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book--called Let The Great World Spin--by Colum McCann, whom Yuliya mentioned in this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... -inspiring bodily functions lingering in the back of my mind. Lingering... UNTIL NOW

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my ... 're not alone. As Michael touched on in his blog, we're in this together.Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  . The researchers also discovered this text in an accompanying bottle ... are released, access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu.    

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013