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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  my students experience the same feelings of inspiration and confidence ... several different stretches and some of the human anatomy underlying the ... groups of core and leg muscles, and the concepts of ligaments and tendons

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... ." And that's what I did. I speed-walked around the basement of Pappalardo ... and free, to not reel it back into the realm of the easy and manageable

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I ... supreme. This, of course, is the primary reason, and everything else is ... combination of spices. But when I went off to college and tried to make the same

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... opera, or was that just me?) We spent the first ten minutes of class or ... melody and apparently my fingers did, too: I had the ghostly experience of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... one of the first classes in algebra so it is a prerequisite for a lot of ... theory of computation before and pretty much everything is new to me so the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  result in the crashing of the internet and the explosion of my computer. I ... response to the first day of class could only be tied to that feeling you get ... some sign that might bring you even the smallest sense of relief, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  might first describe the rules of the game, then describe who won, and ... extracting the relevant subset of the data, organizing it, and changing how it ... my first ever blog post showing the number of steps i took, in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  - what would be the glycerol genotype and phenotype of the four meiotic ... change appreciably? The surface tension of water is γ = 72 dyne/cm and the ... although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  shattered my conception of the tradeoffs in social interaction and existed far outside what i thought the realm of possibility was, and for the first time ... everyone notices in a room full of people i agreed with the first part of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  the shuttle and when it will pick you up. You spend a lot of time at the ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  students and first generation college students. I'm proud of that, and those ... qualified. Talk to some of the deferred students who post here, and each time ... way up, and the number of qualified applications is way up, and thus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So ... DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  and meticulousness were the defining traits of a good engineer ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... because of cool space applications. The idea of black holes and dark energy

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  incoming freshmen and their parents. One of the aspects of MIT life that tends to confuse these groups of people is the housing system, and how it ... words and pics) Finding heritage at MIT (If you don't read any of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... dedicate the full measure of their time, passion, and energies to admitting ... diagram of chocolate and one of the most hilarious love poems ever written

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of that town. The citizen actually cares about the wellbeing of the town and ... up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... Blood Moon Fest. After some Blood Moon Chanting and the indulgence of ... tools, we resorted to variations of stomping, kicking, and throwing the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  in the first twenty years of my life, and so when i see everyone in ... of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because ... be this is why the philosophies of self-care and self-help and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  to join the team of 10 UROPs that made this happen. Our first order of ... ... ... the joys of making ice cream with liquid nitrogen ... ... and MIT ... competition began. Since the summer and fall versions of the game are quite

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011