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• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  these into paragraph form, let me do a quick rundown of what I'm doing and ... Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a ... club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to ... 2005 issue! MURJ is a student-run journal that publishes articles about ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  vacation and doing the best I can with a camera, markers, and printer paper ... diagram kinda looks like this:   Do you ever just take a look at ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  the LA area doing an externship. The second weekend, I went to a great ... that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  . And also, in case you missed it last time - I'm doing a Q&A video ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... you a secret because I have that much love for you all - I was really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the ... 's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy, between classes and studying and sleeping and eating and doing things other than those I just mentioned. I have, however, been able to do some pretty

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  means pass. These do not weigh into your GPA. Spring semester was a ... shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  ? Nope, that was me talking about a special 5.111 lecture. And yes, you do ... Imagine, if you will, the following situation... You join a dense crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  want to do requires a delicate balance and strong time management skills ... Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  I'm going to do things backwards today, and start with... Responses ... "... no worries, I suppose this is a mouthfull (or a keyboard full??). Hmm ... might be and when I didn't see a "did you mean..." message, I assumed it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the ... .   II. A month and a half into the semester, Spring 2018, I reached

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  he’s been doing right. He’s also spent a fair share of his spare time ... to inspire you! Doing a startup is a fun, rewarding experience, with ... a good shot at doing something fantastic and making a large impact in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  often, and suddenly it becomes a bullet point on a to do list. Slowly it ... "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this question a lot over the last few weeks. And rightfully so, it's really been a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a[annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... entire prod staff on my side. How do you make a picture in your mind come ... does a number do when it wants to be a picture?" - Dan Dietz

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  , and I tell myself that was a great decision, I can do whatever I want ... A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  , though, because I've spent a lot of time already doing just that: http ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... . However, lucky you, I'm going to tell you what I've been doing anyway. I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a ... what else has changed. D E S K  S P A C E As a student, I spend an

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017