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  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  really enjoy advocating for good content creation and the importance of ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all possible opportunity, fun, or success. Ever. Good news: none of these will ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I ... because making the bottoms of the legs perfectly flat requires non

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... that’s the most important ingredient. Good luck, future class of 2020 ... rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  those choices, because they were made with good intent and with all of the ... MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... of them, definitely. And it isn’t that every day in the middle was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... the patterns of everyday conversation. The book includes a set of ten

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... consume contained the highest concentration of caffeine. Mountain Dew won

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  things go. All I know is, I’ve experienced a lot of good things for the ... the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  50% of the lyrics right. The movie was good and filled in the gaps of ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... fundamental premise of the sketch - "no, Zoe, you're not on the moon" - because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011