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  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  questions I asked become more specific and relevant. By senior year of high ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  winner by amount of money.[/annotation] But I think it's a value system ... he agreed to do it. I stand by the truth of that claim. He might not 😆 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  " by Sting (embedded below). Pretend the two photographs underneath are really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For ... lights.   (pictures courtesy of Banti G. ‘17 and Emma F. ‘15)  

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  Several things happened last week of note. Monday was the first day ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... family like mine. Unfortunately all this came at the cost of 2 full days of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  , but I was really surprised by how normal most people are. Of course ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  sort of lacking...so, instead, I signed up for an art history class ... , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the tourists and visitors that constantly streamed through Harvard Yard...some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  song. Accordingly, I've adapted the melody of "Chocolate Rain" by Tay ... Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  's Game of Life played by LEDs. This is what it looks like on the wall of ... Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... that out piece by piece!!! Of course, before being allowed to collect ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  week, phase III of the 6.005 project got finished by the students and then graded by the TAs. I hung out with some of the bloggers at Chris P ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for the class of 2012, there has always been one elusive item that confused me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... random noise by trolls, and then there was some nonzero anxiety-inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA ... . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... started by students that decorate the walls. This year, because I've been

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the ... materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a ... touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... several of my MIT friends were incredulous when I explained it to them. By

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  ’t escape this box of gloom by doing a lot of work. I probably can’t, because ... react to surviving a semester like this by thinking of me as smart and ... "] ungodly amount of caffeine[/annotation] followed by late

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... by the end of my freshman year but I am here now. If you are a current

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  of interests, so I was reassured by the flexibility of mechanical ... didn’t think it was possible for me to understand. By the end of the UROP ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017