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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the ... gone by. Sometimes, you just have to perform. As I make my way through

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... decreased significantly. But I think that I’ve still been able to retain a ... the sequel to another novel that I actually read for a class at MIT: 21G

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... ="106857" /]   Of course, I had to make an obligatory snow angel: [caption id ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... sketches but only liked a few of the ideas, so I was too lazy to commit to ... ="aligncenter" width="700"] Not a drawing, but wanted to include this[/caption] The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  't forget to be happy. Don't make time your enemy. Sure, take 8 classes, but ... windows ;), find a scenic route to class. Create things, collect things ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  feels obvious to me that, if you’re trying to make a difficult decision ... play, i noticed a pattern that i was not able to explain at the time ... have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... sample" each year to make sure our writing skills were progressing ... 's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  train a new UROP, and he wanted to make sure all that training time wasn ... '08 for a trip to Water Wizz, a water park on Cape Cod that Adam used to ... and the windows down, and I got to sing a bunch of awesome songs along

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step ... burn unit, but this just goes to show that any and all mistakes you make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  from watching. For example, do you know how to make a roux? Or properly ... will definitely not make it in time to grab a donut. But, free food can ... Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I figured I ought to make a friend. Me: Hello! I guess you're here for ... I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not ... a formality on the way to making something common knowledge. I choose ... such a valid way to present information, especially demographics and any

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  lot about how to make a successful campaign, from contacting newspapers ... a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a ... product that today’s young athletes need. I want to make sure that nobody

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... months to assemble. This is a level 3 approximation of a mathematical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  time to vacation as a family again like this, they decided to make it a ... Medical, but suffice it to say that several xrays and a diagnosis of torn neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number ... 'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake ... hardware, which makes it easier to prototype lots of different radio systems ... really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011