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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  telescopes and camping equipment like thermoses, we wanted to create a camera ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... made this year, including but not limited to textiles, paintings, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. We had met to discuss my interest in astronomy, and our ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’s something there to suit any and every workout routine. We’ve visited and ... . And–the gym has floor-to-ceiling windows facing the street down dorm row ... and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  see the Sistine Chapel and Mona Lisa once I got here. Luckily, going to ... college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... family have dispersed, and our bodies are too worn out to do much. If/when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... highlighting and ignore the lecture. If I was scrambling to take notes, I less ... Friday 19:00-23:00 had a lack of edits while I went to art and music

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  , I buy squishables. They bring me so much joy!! My friend and I also ... numb. A panic attack occurs when the anxiety gets too much, and can ... thing to get under control when you are feeling overwhelmed and/or anxious

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... passed my qualifying exam last January, to my great joy and relief, I'm now ... mammalian brain, and eventually we'd like to be able to fix neurodegenerative

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about ... also built some nice rockets -- he and his dad like to fly R/C airplanes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... MIT intending to be premed. My father is an urologist, and when I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . Incomplete, but I still have an abundance of time and places left to go ... ’ve beat it (and to some extent, I don’t think I ever will), I’ve learned

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , past the bottle of hand sanitizer and signs indicating which doors to exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  -changing decision arrives. and so admissions decisions can be hard to ignore and easy ... these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... will usually be four years. you have so much to do afterwards. regardless

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is ... and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was ... perpendicular to the plane of the bottle and pops off the top. Unfortunately I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much ... , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010