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  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... . “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  humanities classes. The Man to Send Rain Clouds (≈1750 words). A beautiful ... read it! Across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and along the high cheek bones he drew a strip of blue paint. He paused and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a convincingly spunky Indian female character, let alone a protagonist. Sadly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free ... this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live and work anywhere between 3 months to a year. Most MISTI programs also

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life ... never a large number due to the fact that I moved quite often so, I never

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead--an 18.02 pset due the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  (ET) on Thursday, March 8, 2012." I confirmed acceptance a lot sooner than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Gretna, Florida. Over time the project evolved into a multi ... equipment, etc) and managing the camp website. On a more personal note, this camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... 's Anonymous," which listed the following description in the IAP guide: "A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008