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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  requirements! Socially, making the transition to college will be challenging no ... , if you come to Campus Preview Weekend, you will see the broad spectrum ... opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  to send along with the emergency call- like the location of the crash ... be most useful to know before arriving at the scene of the crash?" Hmm ... the whole system from scratch, we thought it would be best to start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  want to be a real leader in the world my generation will soon inherit ... construction jobs created, if the KXL project is similar to other pipeline ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence ... period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the ... the clothes to wear for the day and the judgment calls his neighbor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  , "Because what if I fail?" To me, this is the most important what-if of them ... succeed, at the expense of never being able to fail. So this break, my goal is to fail. To have the roughest and grittiest of failures and watch my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  , but the disambiguation would be helpful. Lesson to be learned from this ... if I could divulge the details. To work with any animals at MIT, you ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  about the intricacies of black holes. It turned out to be less Nobel ... could have been if he wanted to. To be completely honest, most of what I ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  to come and work on the show” and I was like “ah, man.” I would be ... with him the last ten months, so that’s kind of fun to be like “I saw you ... wanted it to be a part of this film. When we went down and we were in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  submission with it, because if it sold, I would be dedicating the next two ... got too addicting subscribing to Disney+ only to be stunningly ... revisited my MG novel again, it wasn’t the story I wanted to tell anymore. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  and lodging fees." which makes it about 12% as cool as it would be if ... to say that. It's true! But upon further inspection this evening, the ... like 4 hours long in the dead of winter. So it's kind of a good idea, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  is going to be run by the smart, passionate youths I saw today, it ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... words the feeling of being surrounded by so many other people trying to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... : Really seeing the city. I guess if I had to pick, I certainly do regret not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  end up dropping the class if it turns out to be too hefty of a time ... , prickly to handle, and hasn't evolved significantly in the last 30 million ... . Exemption from the FEE gives you the sweet freedom to take any writing class

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  if you want to be called fishboy, then go ahead and pick it. I'd like ... ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... you are at MIT. This will be the name you give to faculty, future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... from perfect, but I often think that I should be able to handle

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  issue is that the gyroscope fails too often to be used alone in this ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... . The closest to the number wins. The skunk ball is a penalty ball. If

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  ? I don’t think that I'd be happy with my life if I tried to be the best ... be/things I’m trying to avoid, the magnitude of impacts, and so on ... the occam’s razor explanation, where i’m just really motivated to be a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook ... ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  -learning models. And the assignments would probably be far too complex if we had to ... Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And ... looked forward to… but it turned out to be the most disappointing. Not that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024