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  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... it was a general rule for precision shooting events that weapons be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years, grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  Sherlock (you have trained your oculomotor nerves for this purpose.) It ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more ... -codes everything makes it impossible to extract any useful information. You give up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a ... not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note ... "]four for cake,[/annotation] [annotation note="Humble pie"]one for pie

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding ... . It seems like Ishiguro doesn’t hit hard for everyone, but I’d still say ... happened to pick up this book from a store shelf and leaf through it, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... for this but he describes it as easily the craziest four hours. They ... [annotation note="it’s a 4W tradition to celebrate the birthdays for all the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... .m.s.s." Saturday Work feels kind of like high school, in the sense that you show up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  -Shen Loh, on expanding access to rigorous STEM learning for students in rural ... by geography, but opportunity often is. That gap can show up in ... be harder to come by. This is exactly the moment LIVE was created for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  to never missing out on schoolwork despite not feeling up for it at ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ... throughout the semester - I’ll spare you the details, for now anyways. Instead

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... revolution. There are good reasons for the old system to be overhauled ... possible, allows for a personalized work path, and promotes innovation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  conferences for young entrepreneurs? Literally the night before Next Gen ... a conference for millennial entrepreneurs. It starts tomorrow and it ... I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016