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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.

  

  sides to it: the metal side and the wood side. This is the wood side. In ... spending so much time on it, I decided to turn it into a UROP under the ... hoping to make an update for my work in April at the end of the week

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  beginning. the problem is that there are finals and final projects, and most classes will have one or the other, so everyone is busy in some way. on the ... people standing in front of the cashier, waiting to just tap anyone in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is ... theory of computation before and pretty much everything is new to me so the ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  much vulnerability, even if it is the social norm. And my job in a ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want ... occurs, then I am officially engaged in the conversation. We don’t need to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  nearest Target is quite far, and the MIT Coop is not the go-to store for ... winter gear, unless you don’t plan to visit home in the winter. These take ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... '16, to sustain high school students through the application process

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  took the elevator to the new room, which is in 5 East. It’s a rather ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  ="aligncenter" width="750"] Poisson image editing — it's hard to tell but the "WOW" is in ... normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... -D cameras to locate where the cups are in the environment, and the grasp- and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... can do. That’s the whole point; the point is to know where your limits ... enough to be in an intellectual atmosphere that is nothing short of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  really connected with in Theta. They were some of the most kind and down to ... to. Going in on the first day, I had absolutely no expectations. In my ... mysterious package in the mail that turned out to be a steamed bao ambient

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... another "day in the life", only on a day when I have nothing to do. 2. Adnan

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy ... of the academic year--for freshmen to participate in. I spent virtually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... delivery, but we'd never been to the restaurant, which is near Boston

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015