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• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... . averting morning brain drain This routine has been especially helpful for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  -motivated undergrads; overall, a win-win situation for everyone involved. Additionally ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... current lab for the past two semesters. In the fall, I fabricated magnetic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for ... know if you ever want a job," he told me, "I've been looking for a Super

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors ... caffeine. i just do it for the thrill of having my heart race. so that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki ... the 1990s called "特别的爱给特别的你", commonly translated as "Special Love for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded ... completed [annotation note='see this post for a better explanation, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  high school. It felt realer, knowing that he didn't want me for my physical form, but just for my company. We were loud late nights playing ... right. He didn't want me for the things my first had, he wanted me for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  time and space for schoolwork and extracurriculars. I told myself that I ... effort of reaching out to different people, and I was successful for a ... thing because my dermatologist told me that it’s not uncommon for daily

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... Classical Mechanics Study for the biology and chemistry ASE’s Go out into ... sell all my extra clothing Things I actually had time for during IAP

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics final."]PNR,[/annotation] so why not? The essay was for 21H.130, History ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... written about the glorious iPad and even did an unboxing video for the fancy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  worried for him, but he should be fine. i get to class fine, at exactly 10 ... ."]おはようございます[/annotation]」 before taking a seat for Japanese 6. cory gets here fine, but [annotation ... "]関西弁[/annotation], they make ramen, they sell tickets for ramen, they use Machine Learning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single ... -- since the prompts were intended for art rather than poems (and I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... together. That process, which has now been ongoing for literally years ... wide as saucers. For those of you wizened crones who were familiar with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot ... to use when working. This way, we all can work and display our work for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... Yellow Team identified was that for guitarists, it's hard to write down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of ... Model S reservation for a red 85D.  As a thank you they let me walk out of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016