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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... this; it’s good!” “We have what you want, sir, trust us!” I turned to ... undoubtedly filled with subterranean aliens would be enough to enforce

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... to note that only some dorms, namely the East Campus (Bexley, Random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  it to the blogs. Robert is passionate about web design and development ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their ... brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... no one to talk to about 3blue1brown or NASA missions or programming

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  's always at 1% battery   [Email to Kayode Dada, 10:05 PM, 7/22/2024] Today, sorbet made me think about how important it is to keep going. Fruit sorbet is incredibly easy to make. You freeze some cut up fruit, and then

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... newspaper. Sam and Mitra and Mollie, the earliest bloggers, were MIT to me ... everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... to open-source creative computation at the Welcome Center. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... ="83283" /] 4. Chalk art Although we can’t paint on the walls, we can use chalk to ... designed to fit perfectly with the others, allowing us to create countless

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around to actually making full posts about these things — my to-do list app ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... explained by watching an example match. But I moved to Nevada after middle

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think ... books i intended on finishing with me to campus (these three among them

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019