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  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four ... .096: blacksmithing, and How to Make Almost Anything. I got into all but the last one. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ] At least I got to make a cool cup using it. [caption id ... forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add ... wrong. I would try so hard to focus and pay attention and make things ... a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... coming true. in fact, way back when, i made a wish at 11:11 to become a ... nice as well—I think I'm going to have a good time here. I'm really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... people have to say instead: Into the Unknown here comes a thought As ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  these things up to make way for a summer subletter, and I spent a week ... trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I ... . According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a bedroom is primarily defined as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus ... , Boston looked like this: It had snowed just enough to make everything

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... could not find my way from East Campus to Building 7. This was a path that ... . There's so many variables that goes into making a shot good, that despite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... to be able to orient yourself in such a way that you can stand on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  could get a 0%, so people take it upon themselves to make sure that other ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  ; I just sort of 'make it happen' when it comes to putting out a comic ... , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic ... assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... at Bexley (a dorm) when a man called the front desk and demanded to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (< ... to get work done) in order to finish my application. After a short

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She ... should care about? is there a good reason I should feel obligated to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  . '16 and I are making a bean casserole dish that is supposed to be really ... EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far ... he always has new witty comments to make on our comments on different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009