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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  amazing "working" with my teammates and so wonderful to get to work on ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http ... accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are some useful links and tips: a) Make sure you get your web certificates

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he ... listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice." Here's the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I ... full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit at no extra monetary cost. Plus, you get a novel view on college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I ... like a farce, like a four-year-long audition, and then we would go on to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  muttered to myself. Beside me, an elderly woman glared. My bag was on her ... battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all ... -minute walk in the opposite direction. I was just about to collapse on the side

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’s great to be able to rely on someone on campus, but it’s also great that I ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic ... the way to the top. So I did. Three times. (And then once on foot

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... care about the theory behind anything; they want to know how things work ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  ME: open 24/7 ME: for all your dyeing needs ME: find us on yelp ME ... to feed on our youthful energy ME: FROSH: before you crawl back into your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  ? There surely has to be some foil to show how deeply enamored we are with ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015