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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  a year's worth of collected bubble wrap for 10 minutes, consumed ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 hours, suggesting that, at this rate, I should go ask for another blog

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both ... officer for NROTC. IAP '08 came and went without a post, and that was ... all into that module. I did, and I think it paid off. For some reason my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini ... (check for yourself here); so instead of taking a lunch break, I just ... ! Want to have coffee?" Ben: "Hey! Well, I have three letters to finish for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for ... 've been trying for years!' 'Well, you didn't have an MIT freshman in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... 's foremost expert on formic acid fuel cells, to ask for the highest power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... 's. Grad school Well, for one, see above. For another, I never wanted to be ... that I liked my biology classes a lot, and made a class plan for a double

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  tickets for Bruce Campbell, and then nobody told me about super-hot Phil ... (tm Kevin Miu '06), but that's another story for another day. There are ... , especially when it could be used to buy free food for the floor, so I was kind

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... amateur musical theater shows or write Linux tools for fun or whatever it is ... to cruft tell stories for hours, but sometimes I'm the one telling them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . I know, it's a bold move for an inexperienced blogger like me, but ... show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... about college was the need for a refined major. In many instances, inside ... current interests are and that there is little room for change. By not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am ... reading books I don’t like has been somewhat of a challenge for me, because ... ."]them.[/annotation] So, because this is fun for me and may end you with a book rec or two

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... tackle specific issues. In order to do this, we created empathy maps for ...  social issues unheard   We then drafted up our problem statement that would guide us for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP ... in the world. Plus, more and more summers are being reserved for ... year, I ended up applying for the IAP Madrid program offered by the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... 't realize wasn't common knowledge becase I'd been exposed to 6-3 for so long

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen ... great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... others knew that physics wasn't for me lol. Course 20 (Bioengineering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  lived in for the duration of the program"]Almaty[/annotation], but Shoqan ... go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates ... ”. That’s another thing! For the sailors, this wasn’t “sea music,” it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... , or both; someone who's capable of speaking up for their team to ... . This past month, I've been serving as the band director for a student

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023