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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  a mill by pressing a button to release or tighten around a bit, and I ... , then bend it over the anvil, hammer it in towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale, to make a hook. Repeat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  by a long shot. It was great to climb in bed and read a few precious ... . Also, why does trial by jury not seem to be a thing? No witness testimony ... Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... to Be a Scientist" by me. Awesome. Questions! 1. Everyone thinks I ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... : I'm gonna teach a class! So basically, I was kind of disappointed by

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  't. So now I feel this weird pressure to...make sure I don't end up in a ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac &

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  don’t want to be a person who is primarily motivated by fear (as opposed ... students at a high school tennis academy, teens who are striving to “make it ... always been a very ambitious person, driven by the desire to be successful

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of ... and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... .g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). This year, in an attempt to make REX

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... good way to remember that you are more than what you are able to do. by chance, god will sometimes let me learn a thought, and i try hard to give

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... to admit, but i had a note on my phone that listed people who i didn't interact with on a semi-regular basis who i wanted to remind myself to catch

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... ; Scott proceeded to explain FOMO, a very valid and prevalent fear among MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had ... about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... ’ve recently submitted a formal application and a constitution to be recognized

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  in, in a way that feels most true to me.  - By the way, just make ... even carrying a child in the front and another in the back. I want to ... bathes completely naked because makes everyone take a really hard look at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves blockaded by a veritable barricade ... few minutes, by a loud siren claxonning through the air, followed by a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and ... )... THROWBACK!   “Throwback to what?” you might ask.  Well the answer is a simple ... !  Here’s a preview to some of the McCormick events (along with their

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019