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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get ... were also applying. Knowing that I'd get to interact with awesome peers ... are. Most of the time we don't get to play with my childhood toys

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  had to be screened by three different people when I went to check in for ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  point to get back before dark, since some of our professors were concerned ... -Au-Prince when we get back to Boston. Tomorrow we'll leave, but the street vendors ... night to see by the light of one little light bulb. Maybe it only takes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  passive way, by taking what was given to you instead of understanding your ... . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  me to take a step back and get an overarching view of the material to ... that the class was trying to teach me. What was I supposed to get out of ... afraid of failing too. In that, I learned another lesson. I used to get mad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... with enough pepper to heat a small house.) You get the general idea. I ... pixels, I'm still unconvinced. By then, I was ready to call it a day

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear ... , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... GEL program encourages its students to get the most out of their ... rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  stop wasting time on the internet and get back to writing my paper. I ... , about five miles away. To get there, you'd have to take the Red Line ... , because to be honest, I am puzzled by the distinctions between all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  getting carpal tunnel"]orbital sander[/annotation]to veeeeeeery carefully ... , over and over, trying to get it right and figure out what the relative ... midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  ’t wait to see this tower built collaboratively by members of the MIT ... walk through the tunnels to get around campus. Tunnel66 is an interactive ... animation I knew I had to get involved with Borderline. Having never been very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ever wake up at around 6am every day to get to school by 7ish. This clock ... squished side-by-side, and some motivational notes given to me by friends and ... In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to ... aren't always a measure of effort, but if you happen to get an A, a B, or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... overstating it. Drew, you should make every effort to get into the optimal place ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... me starting this post and me getting to this paragraph, my sushi ... getting better. I’m at the right age to explore and figure things out, to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021