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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little guilty for bringing such a lame demonstration, I filled up a film canister ... jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  and to have them come up to you afterwards and thank you for what you ... elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... on gyroscopes, gas theory, and Gauss’s law. Gyroscopes make up one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  chemistry, physics), sign up for extracurricular activities and explore career ... . The hardest part about essay writing for me is actually coming up with a ... parameters until you find a set-up that feels most comfortable for you. For

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... figured I'd blog because I've been quiet for awhile and there are some ... portfolios at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Along the way I got to meet up with Ari

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a fairly weak immune system for what seems like forever, but it had never

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  proposal also put MIT-based teams up for the "grand prizes" of Apple Watches ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures ... time. Each day was scheduled for "two" lectures, one given by Alexander

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  walkers" app that you can sign up for) or tutoring online for Chegg Tutors ... up for CPW (Campus Preview Weekend), which is mid-April. You must com ... summer, such as applying for housing or setting up your MIT email account

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  ? Immediately after the wrap-up, people started a Discord server for people who ... philosophical goals and target metrics. "Fun for all teams" ended up being the ... , really deserve the credit for coming up with many of the ideas. It was Rob

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp-up ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... . Though we ended up going in a different direction, my earliest plans for

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  to keep yourself up to date. No big deal, right? Friday, 16:19 Anyway ... 'm sitting at my kitchen table, eating leftover baked ziti I just heated up. I ... to explain that they needed some maps for a puzzle. This sort of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by March. [annotation note="An event for Latino admitted students"]Sin Li ... transition into MIT for incoming freshmen and provide them with all the support

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up ... texted a friend to ask for help. I stood up, keeping my head as still as ... . Fifteen minutes later, I stood up and left to see my friend waiting for me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the ... , and warmed up for a few minutes since we were a little ahead of schedule ... for me to psych myself out. Lucky that Takuya was nice enough to wait up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  to generate moves for any piece is to just look up the possible moves ... website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this ... beginning, even being there for the night where Raymond started randomly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  school record for the 400m sprint if he woke up at 7am and trained every ... because I didn’t end up watching the lecture recordings for the days I ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the VHS player show up on the tv (it had to be on channel 2 for whatever ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... to MIT campus. I went there a few weeks ago and ended up buying a VHS

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  ended up 42nd. For Round 2 and 3, which were chosen to be school and ... you up and asks for donations to an undergraduate fund. You have 1000 ... For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020