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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... now stand my ground on what I believe in, as opposed to “agreeing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  seemed like we tried everything to get the reaction to happen on both sides ... to fly. I'll admit, I googled "get cape wear cap fly" to find this ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  —it’s discouraging sometimes to see how much the people around me are getting done, how ... “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  , but I'm fully willing to sell ad space on my body (and my integrity) for ... with that beanie. I kind of want the weather to get colder just so I can ... these companies, from Apple to Google to Facebook to the NSA, falling over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  me to learn how to do it. Apparently, it comes in handy when you're ... of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... . 4. Write letters to friends - I love getting mail from friends, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  to Kresge to get a peek inside. However, it seemed as though many other ... ” and wear it around my neck along with a reporter’s hat. Oh well, on to ... have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  ), but honestly, if you're on your own, why not? how do I actually get ... how the dance progresses from start to finish. examples: Love on the ... choreography videos for K-Pop songs were available on YouTube for me to learn, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... . “Why are you always dating these PhD types? You’re overindexing on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  re-sodding a Kresge of your very own.   Step 1: Get rid of all ... arbitrary white flags to indicate your surrender to the will of Sod. [caption ... pallets on some of the major walkways through Kresge lawn to inconvenience

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  benefit of having the tools you need to get the job done. On the other hand ... advice on the Internet and ended up bricking it, and then had to go to MIT ... working like new anyway...and then I did not attempt to install Ubuntu on it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me. If you're googling my full name, could you please leave a comment ... boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... , and you're going to come to CPW and already know the numbers, and I won ... know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  to get on a reality show? However, Sam's Mom convinced us that this ... and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  have thesis defenses to go to. And then, of course, when you get your Ph ... your children's names wrong. Congratulations on finally getting your Ph ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow. I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  and to make the next 25 minutes your entire life - it doesn’t matter how strong the urge is to open emails or look at your phone or get up and take ... brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and ... student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... makes you a lot more attractive to graduate institutions -- and, once you're

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the ... . ** On a school morning, we went from the bathrooms to the dining hall, and ... in his drawer. Mr. Yemi would then proceed to shave your head, except

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... . Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of ... set up, right? How were they able to set it up quickly enough? It must

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025