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• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  - I felt like a balloon with it’s strings cut. Adrift. Empty. Useless ... live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... half of it and put it back. Add one cup of half-and-half or a half-cup of cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I ... teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a little research, however, I discovered that a pet turtle would require a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy ... my research (2 poster presentations + a lab presentation), writing ... was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... . ----------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:17 -0400 From: Ruth F Miller To: Samuel A ... bike there after 3-6-0? Matt and Jose are going. We can invent a dance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by ... interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  (being a biologist, E. coli make me nervous)... bad news. So after making a few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  "](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly a marsh ahead of the camp site. [carousel image1="119561" image2

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine, fine, I'll explain. Once a year, And that's where I stopped my draft, mid

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a ... Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30.12.2024_14.16.29_REC.mp4"][/video] Have a day everyone!

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... this year, Kano suggested we have a blogger retreat this semester. We ... of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film ... ’m not the biggest Marvel fan, but I still know a few things about what has ... dorm at MIT) will appear in a few scenes. There will be some car chase

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the ... basically a whole meal every hour for a week. When I finally slowed down, they had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021