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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music for the runway portion of Gala, is starting to set up their ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... the launch event for Infinite Magazine, the annual event has since spun

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew ... little worse for wear after yesterday's heavy flying. The time to beat was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  examples: Maddie '11, after staying up until 5ish studying for 2.001, gets ... . Many different acronyms have been invented for the word "finals," most of ... the legwork up to you) but all center around never having actually

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  worth it. The campus tour that my dad lined up for us the following ... managing to stay up all night long, I left East Campus for Logan airport ... financial aid appointment, I met back up with Becca and Tim and we went to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Sharpie along the corner, since that apparently makes up for my laziness. It ... Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I ... , right now this picture is entirely misleading for a couple of reasons: a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... hopefully I've cleared those two things up a bit. (Thanks mom for the feedback ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see. Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  for the next 4 years? How much do I want to learn? What would I give up ... that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  helpful with any questions that may pop up, since office hours for this ... exam make up the brunt of your 24.09 grade, but my weekly workload for ... help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  , before saddling up my horse and picking up some celebratory goose fat from ... , SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF, screaming my head off some more, jumping up and down ... , sonnet, or just plain comment below. Or read some old stories for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught up in applications that I didn't read Sunday's New York Times, usually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  in love with my car, or any cars for that matter. I finally gave up on ... school friend Shana for that bit of information. Finding myself suddenly and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  education about sexuality and speaking up for relationship empowerment ... resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the ... couple of years, I've picked up some advice and tips that my advisees have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  this semester, only to beat myself up every morning for not doing better ... and gathers as many points as it can before time is up. Coding autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... watch. I picked up needles again to help me through this hell of a year

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  was there for eggs, toast, and emotional support. We ended up ... idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015