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• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  that could actually be read by the laser cutters. So to do this, I went ... the pipe at the ceiling. And of course, the best way to do that would be ... -school and was asking to be improved. [caption id="attachment_106486" align

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  community was making and/or saying, figuring out a way to form IRL ... [/annotation] pour in from the audience, followed by cries of "CLICHE!!" which leads to ... less. The things that actually draw people to this place tend to be

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining ... there ate her phone, so she'll be coming to MIT and blogging for us ... . I took a gamble by thinking death metal could be so intense, it could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... best way to learn is to push yourself so fast that you faceplant, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... back, for 5.07: Biological Chemistry. There's something to be said for essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... the way, is 12.) But even at MIT, not everything can be measured. When

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be ... this site to be, how we want it to work, and what our overall mission and ... posts went from being centralized on our site to distributed across many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... from students about the way I portrayed them. I decided to take this ... , to loud, sociable, and partying, but forms of socialization tend to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  asked him, please, to tell me how to be a writer, the good kind, a serious ... and rewarded by the world, and I haven't learned them yet. I'll learn to ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or ... of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... a 500-something on one of the sections. And he seemed to be doing fine

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first ... heading south along the East Coast, imploring to be rocked “like a south ... non-country song cited). Nowadays, trains aren’t what they used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  was in got lost on the way there, so by the time we parked, the other groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... - let me tell you, there's no shortage of adventures to be had around here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... way to burn out, and is probably a sign that you have been poorly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... group of friends and I went to Singing Beach by Manchester-by-the-Sea (yes ... was work to be done! I went to a meeting for the IAB, the Industry

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston ... 't always a way to solve for x. What I also know is that I could have this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  to spray-painting. Spray paint with stencils, by the way, is possibly ... give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be ... . I also wanted the costume to be comfortable and fairly practical, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  to be wearing it the wrong way. The symbolism of my brass rat ... undergraduates to flip their brass rats around and wear them the other way: while ... world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more ... brainstormed. How was the class to be structured? How do you explain all of the ... ways, being an instructor helped me not only appreciate ALL of my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012