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  On Greatness

  

  them that makes them incredible. And the surprising conclusion I've come to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a natural by-product of following your passion. The people who are most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  followed mere moments later by Bao, who decided that there was nothing to ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common ... headed over to the Garden stripped down to my underwear, and, well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  meat processing factory. Unable to make human contact by phone, much like ... stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... shelter for Wellesley friends scattered to the cold, Bostonian winds by the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to ... to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... sick. thinking about all of these things makes me feel very sad and very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  , led by MIT Music and Arts Lecturer Mark Harvey. They treated us to a ... [by Shelby Heinecke '13] This past Friday, the MIT Symphony ... symphony was composed by Charles Shadle, a faculty member in the Music

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  extensive to fix in time. It didn't matter though. 2.007 was a trial by fire in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... had one desire: to make something that looked cool enough so that I didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  knew that this was the perfect opportunity to make a blog post. I can ... you to explore other things about yourself. It makes for a richer human ... from my home and my family. They’re there to mentor you, to make sure you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English. I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  running out of energy--emotional and physical. But by not being able to ... , trying to write something, because it makes me feel like myself. My junior ... be if I can't make time for anything but my classes. I need to make

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes ... 've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  me and my friends have to do some food making. Here is some food that ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... . Intrigued by the potential to get paid to play with airplanes, I asked Carl ... software. This is where I came in. It was my job to make the necessary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on ... switched to Canadian coins, but this went unnoticed by the waitstaff ... airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  " by purposely choosing to go mealplanless and cook instead. I've been ... fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to ... semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  by live music to my ears is definitely a pleasant reminder of home. But ... electrifying enough to make me forget about how stressed out I was just hours ... make plans to leave campus. Fortunately for me, music is just a floor

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  want to check it out, stop by the East Campus courtyard and help out! If ... To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  how can we get our model to generalize to messy data? By making our ... to actually pick the trendline out of the graph by transforming the ... : Crop to the actual chart body by identifying the horizontal and vertical

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  an ohms concert (which, by the way, we have a concert this saturday that you should come to if you happen to be a current mit student!)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  emissions significantly by 2020 or at least 2026 to keep the global ... Carbs. Even if you opt into a vegetarian diet, make sure to avoid highly ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017