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  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  plywood to top it off. This is when I learned of the next big challenge of ... room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... , a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  my friends. We chose Hawai'i because it was close to my family and my ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three ... , were dedicated to fun, house-bonding events. Eva is not part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... on [annotation note="this is similar to audit status. you have access ... .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Boston Marathon has only been cancelled once in its 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  , barely clipped down to the base, was protruded as if it was about to ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... went home to make this:  It’s so conflicting. We cringe so much

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one. This is ... mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold ... answer, but don’t want to hear it. The point of yearning is the

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot ... kind of funny and I don't think it was intended to have this much of an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  ’t have the time or energy to fully appreciate it beyond doing the (only ... months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key ... ) flexible 2) easily maintainable and 3) relatively quick to implement. It was

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be ... inexperienced and mostly did experimental work, it looks like I'm going to start

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  . But if you go to an event at a dorm and realize that it is your favorite ... have fun!  It might be a good idea to see what one class is like so you ... , or current MIT students, about what it is like to go to MIT.  But now

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• 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 ... design is great because it can be easily expanded to more complicated ... brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... . BRING IT. Where did all of that energy come from? I'd say it came from ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  you cared deeply about sadly passes away. But I think it is helpful, to ... – but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  that I’d have to unpack in just four months. Instead, I focused my energy ... frames. The only other downside to my room is that I couldn’t squeeze in a ... 2020 I fell in love with green and knew I wanted to use it in my next

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , except that it's a TESLA! Don't know what a Tesla is? Fully electric, 0 to ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... talking about it now? That's old news, nobody wants to read the same stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... hours a day is almost certainly not going to overcommit you to anything ... done that year while getting paid to do it. Pretty good deal, if I do say

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  really like to think that it’s better to Engage than it is to Criticise ... . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is ... have gotten it if I wasn't willing to take the shot, and already learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  interviewer have told us, it is my job to summarize your application on the ... ... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004