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• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  that you totally sound ready for 7.013. and I do have your jeans. And

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that ... and visiting this dorm, Burton Conner, for a free Thai food event. I ... part of the floor Burton One. They held a distinct passion for the color

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  we had. As I grew up, I still maintained this attitude with stickers ... . When I put down a sticker, I wouldn't be able to pick it up again or I ... . I think for a long, long time I've always wanted to be freed from this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  really liked the teacher, and it ended up being my favorite class that year ... aerospace for less hands-on things: a lot of modeling and CS, some data ... writing class I took last fall. For the first time, I really enjoyed the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions ... that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... transparent, I grew up in a mixed-income suburb, and this was my only experience

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  -- they're setting up the seats for the 140th commencement on June 9. After ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and ... , "Wow, I didn't even know MIT had cheerleaders! Do you cheer for the chess

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  not the original 11.041 I signed up for."]11.001[/annotation] project ... /Thursday and then study Friday/Saturday/Sunday for my Monday exams. But then I ... coming days, I feel behind if I'm not ahead for what's ahead, y'know? In

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  and very engaging! For our final project, my teammates Sabine, Emily ... goal. For example, the Google search engine uses distributed technologies ... computers crash and others have to 1) recognize the crash and 2) pick up the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible ... be god, formless light fed through wire? All I pray for in the next

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  same in a year. So I wouldn't know what I'd be signing up for. Janice ... Janice: Hey! Thanks for making time for this. CJ: No problem ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I Made MIT-ish ASMR you're welcome (i'm so sorry)

  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston ... do important stuff like attending a graduate school fair, picking up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation Lots of fun with picture pages

  

  Wondering what our new freshman are up to this week (aside from the usual East Campus shenanigans)? This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off everywhere; I wonder if, on some level, I also wanted to shame myself for ... beyond your skill set. It looks horrible for a couple of hours. More than a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  yeah. San Fran: This was the one souvenir I bought for myself after the ... my favorite South Asian drinks, so gotta have a sticker for it ... my time at MIT, and I'm forever grateful for a community of people that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  "]Building 46[/annotation] and struck up a conversation. From there we had lots ... (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for ... thing that I loved having in common with Kidist was an appreciation for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  might excuse the President for being too stressed or distracted to come up ... thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall ... rain, so we opted for the latter, got in line, got our books, got our

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... Sciences and Technology program, came up with a different application when he ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  Peterson) This is actually tied for second with the rap class. I loved this ... the way in which I consumed media. For example, we'd look at The Batman ... media for the way that it is and do a 'haha superhero cool brain off', it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023