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  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it ... to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  had yet to make my mark. It's been (almost exactly) 2 months since I ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  parts! Me: *clicks in* AHHH. Zach: *reads* The key to making a concise ... House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  . (Recording these was already an interesting experience. In order to make the ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom ... engaged in tutorial (in groups of 4 to 5). An important point is that

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got ... ... ah, New England weather. More time to do homework? Something like that ... to the Z Center with nothing to show for it, I headed up Mass Ave to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  , which, being devoted to make-or-break exams, means students there don't do ... to fill in my calendar. By the way, as promised, I have the answers ... Cambridge. At Cambridge, there are three eight-week terms, separated by two

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  engineer, Venice just doesn't make much sense to me. Who thought it would be ... passionately making a reservation so you don't have to play I Spy for two hours ... of how Leonardo wanted to make this gigantic horse sculpture, so he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  favorite! Questions 1. Charlotte said, Sigh...guess what, I wanted to make ... TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season ... that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  my brass rat, was gifted to me by my late maternal grandmother. I feel ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  I needed to submit where by when. I already knew Lydia really well ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... this is not very impressive to most high school students but it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  group of women ages 17 to 70, who deeply cared about making women’s voices ... eat and sit and talk properly, and embarrassed to be waited on by the ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... networks try to convince you to watch reruns during the summer except you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005