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• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do ... [/caption] Fundamentally, a trapeze is a simple system. There is a bar held up by two ropes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  don’t experience imposter syndrome: I am glad, because it is more ... , and [annotation note="and if you believe otherwise that is just the ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  the bio undergrad mailing list is so nice, you get a lot of cool ... piazza notifications, but the bio list is always filling up my inbox ... with 11:11 is an interesting one because the wishes i make usually end up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  , table, etc. But because it’s water-based, everything is easy to wash off ... nice pictures which is obviously the only thing that matters. Hair ... first time I did it, and I think it [annotation note=" Yes my eyeshadow is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  it, but now that I've seen how impactful it is, I'm hooked. When I ... own computer is quite the feat, and I'm so proud of my peers for what ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the environment is overly competitive -- MIT is probably one of the most ... fact, will be okay. Every day, though, my mom is sure to send me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  curb, but we knock over a fire hydrant. Oof. Everybody on the bus is ... distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the ... color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance ... with friends. His whole life is parsed out into little hour and half ... is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... Portugues e ajudar minha noiva com sua trabalho. Now, this is a long winded way of saying I'm leaving. Yes, this is a goodbye post. But don't worry

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  Disclaimer: I'm sorry if this post is a little incoherent. Narcotics ... themselves inside my mouth, and I remember thinking "wow, this is fascinating ... SPRING BREAK. This is a nice introduction to what I have going on this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... is an illuminating insight into an otherwise tired subject; his similarly striking Saving Facebook is hands-down the best law review article

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  one. :p Truth is, I have not been doing much this semester other than ... aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is ... no longer count how many people have asked me that). C. elegans is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... magnitude and speed at which their magnitude is clear. And in true MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  Freshman advising is separate from upperclassman advising; upperclassmen are ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson ... traditional advisor is also available for one-on-one meetings any time during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is ... about other dorms is anecdotal, and people can have vastly different

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the ... . 2. Recalculate Your Entire Grade For some reason, this is always

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go ... crust is always simultaneously burnt yet still undercooked. But more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to ... pull you down just like a sinking shipFloating is getting harderBut tread

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these ... to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together ... wiggling absorbs) is dictated by how heavy the ball is and how many springs

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025