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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Throughout all of it we kept getting grabbed by people who worked for ... rest of the weekend that's what we were called, which was totally fine by ... by Jim Marggraff, CEO. It's wonderful listening to the CEO of a company

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying ... then i realize i’m not helping by keeping quiet, so i desperately think of something to say instead. but what do i say? what do i say to my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  sources of bad smells by regularly maintaining the general hygiene of your ... ="MacGregor House has 312 singles (and 3 doubles assigned by request only). In other ... little things like how my room smells. My definition of good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with ... ://web.mit.edu/pistol/www/). *************** From the Hotel *************** We had our first round of shooting this ... discovered is that a combination of hearing protection and iPod headphones

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the slides -- when you shake up a water/protein solution (for example, by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the sacrifice. By some stroke of luck, I found a large cookie platter at ... both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  by this cryptic message. We opened the app again. In the midst of ... proof of vaccination. Appointments like these usually make my social ... entire time. Because the campus center was closed by the time my

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from ... probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  Cambridge/Somerville squares—Davis, Porter, Harvard. By the end of the summer ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  by to visit, so I'm hoping to make the most out of my time there ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  discovered the joys of Illustrator (by "recently", I mean "10 hours ago ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel ... level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little ... pretty much everything. Laughing contests, chess, Madden, knowledge of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of crufting (see: crvfting) is an important part of daily life at MIT. Although

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  factor of MIT: living groups and affiliations," said Amanda. Amanda has ... drive that raised $15,000 and collected more than 12,000 pounds of food ... enjoyable and meaningful way," said Amanda. Over the span of five weeks, that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers ... of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in ... and intricacies of a satisfying plot. Unfortunately, not all of these

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  delicious breakfast burritos. Of course when you get past security, past your ... ." Of course. "44. 43." "45." What if your plane left? What if you missed ... the takeoff time? You just turned 18, so you don't get any of the fun

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006