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  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  picnic. All in all, it was a tragic end to a magical day, but a car karaoke ... , when I stop to think about it, I'm pretty amazed to be given these ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 ... Initiative: "Planet Earth is a monument to the magnificent complexity that can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non ... should take an entire day to make just a single pumpkin?” As it turns out ... ! The third time’s the charm, I guess. … Make a stem and attach it to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  of things to make It seemed that no sooner than I had arrived on campus, it was time to leave again. I decided that this winter would be the ... towards Israel, it is a great way to connect people with other Jews and the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  passion and want to create and do and make. It can be seen and felt ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... , drawing, playing music. It's no secret to my friends that I consider myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  . This semester I was able to make it to four presentation and it's mind ... Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at (and around) MIT so I thought I would bring it back with something I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... back to the second patient, as he started vomiting into his trash can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  your lips on this warm night. You can see why he has to do it, why the ... words, but you can feel it and you can attempt to transmute it into letters. You can feel the impulse to reach for his face and break it. You

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is ... often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  (I realize this was a few weeks ago but it's still making me happy), thanks to ... finishing The Wise Man's Fear I decided to pick it up and enjoy the beautiful ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it ... idea of it was much different from actually committing to it. I spent the ... credits to transfer over, but it'll be work on our end to petition for those

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Victoria’s Secret Update UPDATE!

  

  Ok, quick update to my post immediately below this one. Read that one before this one, otherwise this one won't be nearly as exciting. Ok, so, now when you go to vote for MIT you get this lovely screen: YAY!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to build it. It's even harder to make it work reliably enough to present live on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... Midway this year - MIT students can dance too!) - that this is going to be ... thing I have to say about thermo is that you don't understand it, or you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  .001. Most people seem to see it as a class that is useful, interesting at ... can be like useful to society,” I said. My family is big on activism. “I ... . “Can I take this to Boston with me?” My mom hesitated. “Wait, it has

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  go to Verdes at 2 am, I can talk about why Verdes is placed where it is ... a practicing Buddhist, and after meditations I try to use my clear ... varied it is, I do find myself drawn to the micro theory side. In

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  of the key ideas behind my project – using my little microcontroller to ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... little devices built into it, like four digital-to-analog converters (DACs

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so ... sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009