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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... ? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem. Go trick ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch ... 've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  . Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the end of my life points, I took a gaspingly unprecedented risk and whipped ... and electrostatic motors. It appears that graders can have a sense of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6 ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  . Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright and novelist whose play Topdog ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... school was just that (1) everyone was a genius, and (2) no one did anything ... by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showcase. casting, cutting, CNC'ing, oh my! Each day featured a new design process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of scrolling and scanning, here's a table of contents: 1. Calculus and APs aren ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... a long, tedious process that I wasn't a part of since I had class from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... . Once he successfully fights the illness, he emerges as almost a completely different person, working with his uncle to start a tea shop and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  Shakespeare Ensemble's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last ... , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night ... Mechanicals, a small, poorly equipped and ill-experienced acting troupe that

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  It had been quite a while since I looked at MIT's online Hack Gallery ... date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups ... please don't everybody say the taking of Caltech's Fleming Cannon. I have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... to more lectures, or recitations. Then a student group gives an ... , yet another student group has a meeting. There are free dinners in each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts ... , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... 16[/caption] with a bike, that's a four-minute commute tops. i could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020