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• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  shouldn't do when laser cutting. Each featured some videos, text, and a quiz ... the material, focusing the laser cutter, and doing a quick test run ... at all and were terrific. So I got a rather dandy end result if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... name, so I've given him a pseudonym. **Arlo: "When people ask what I do ... It occurs to me that I haven't told you much about what I'm doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up dropping a class. Not cause I was doing terribly bad, but because I hated it ... I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... course 16 anthem? Background: In 3rd grade, we had to do creative ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  talents? Do you long for opportunities to support a good cause while being entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ... Do you want to relive your favorite pop culture moment? Do you enjoy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  started running out of work to do after one semester, so I adopted a second ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  ’ve been doing a bit of this and a bit of that—like Michael C. ’16, I did ... . Additionally, I'm working part time doing web development for a small business ... had been on my to-do list since getting to MIT. It’s a pretty good way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  'm motivated to do at the moment. But half the time I give up and take a nap in ... I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  . You might be able to find a community that enjoys doing [insert hobby ... -life separation. I do work remotely sometimes, which may defeat the point a bit, but ... to create two “desktops,” which might have been helpful to do back as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... in your college app process: good job! You're doing really good, keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  remembered that we can. All futures have a past; indeed, one reason we do ... future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... where we want to be. R: Which is? Where do you want to be? B: Taking it a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I ... beats a 11 pm food order. Seriously. Get that medium-sized banana pepper

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... 't think many classes let you build and race an elephant... make a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014