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• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem ... of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find parts of it inaccessible. You should read this anyway, because it's just a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written ... the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it makes even a bit of sense, and throwing out various swear words every two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... WHAT NOW WHAT NOW?!", all that. Of course, we both ran around panicking ... of social skills ("...um, yeah! That's right! We never really learned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2 resident Jeremy, a native of Hull, Massachusetts, was all "Hey, my dad owns a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... everyone an equal footing, regardless of prior education. It will also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of ... , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... design and build working alpha prototypes of new products, learning about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... start of my freshman fall, we were still amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021