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  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  are slightly less crowded as I make my trek to campus (but still packed ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good gig, to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  are making a 40-minute detour to stop by F and M and pick me up. From ... make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... questions when I tried to make a simple outline of my blog that spiraled into ... cognition. But since I have till about May to make a choice, you can catch me

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see ... website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  myself by making things up. I sat a while. I called my mother. I began to ... ’s a small town, and I make a habit of talking to strangers. An older man ... knives. I listen for footsteps and try to make my own gait a little less

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  is also the kind of song that makes you want to go back to the 90's ... becoming a herpetologist/entomologist/Jeff Corwin. I just want you to imagine ... and haven't showered in a while. "Help Yourself" by Amy Winehouse

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline ... decided to make a snowman. This is the end result: I know what you ... ’ll just make a little mini snowman. However, after adding arms came to the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... community and want to help make your transition as positive as it can possibly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  ." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  had a custom nametag made by Abby ’17 in which we suggested conversation ... interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  President Walker, the musical societies will be permitted to place a piano ... . Unfortunately, a year later the orchestra was disbanded due to lack of support ... -century, Liepmann would put in motion a thriving music program at MIT, supported by

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop ... hall when you happen to have a bajillion questions about the exam isn ... and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  Gene by Siddartha Mukherjee (the sequel-ish to a book above) (was too ... Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddartha Mukherjee (nf) This Is How You ... to take his class so bad) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (I read

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to ... had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... . It was taken by an automated camera attached to a weather balloon which ... New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... was a high school senior, I had visited MIT by myself for CPW, and it ... accepted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. She chose Harvard, partially due to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022