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  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  pictures from the trip: We couldn’t resist. A pretty typical stream in ... side isn’t. GK Bibirao, a more rural village. Camarines Norte ... packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a ... A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  , but I will continue reading them. I'm realizing it doesn't kill me to ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  out work experience. Oh, I'm a blogger! I finally have something to put ... bed and pull out a dress shirt, black pants, and a belt. I don't have a ... shirt. I don't have fancy shoes, so I plan on wearing a pair of chukkas

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  companies about AI/ML that I didn’t get to the day before. After a couple of ... About a month ago, I left campus to take a little trip to Houston for ... everyone leaving for the airport at 6 AM. Honestly don't think there was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... warm and chewy experience. *He wasn't actually a cosmologist, but he ... that came to mind was “Yay!” I didn't even care that I now had a chance

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  the average you should be getting an A, but HASS classes aren't all fun ... , Music...(see here). Honestly, this sounds like a lot, but it really isn't ... like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  and I’m a senior studying Chemical-Biological Engineering (10B) and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the ChemE Undergrad Student Advisory Board, and a campus tour guide. Isaiah: I’m a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to bust out a 3D part. I didn't want my paper weight to suck. This had ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  was a lot going on, because there's always a lot going on. So I didn't ... coming through them. But I don't have a lot of artistic talent experience ... a kind of fade-out, but I'm not sure how noticeable that ended up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  . However, this story does not involve Reuse and doesn't really belong here. I'm ... this as a compliment. Which is why I didn't have a costume on Halloween. ... machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... ="Actually international development house"]iHouse[/annotation] was a dorm that was really

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  requested a conflict exam in a class where the professor didn't offer conflict ... restaurant in Jamaica Plains, a suburb of Boston. I haven't been there since ... spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  stressful 25 words of my life. :P" Definitely not a problem. We don't actually ... deadline is later, I can't imagine it would be a problem. You should have ... application, I couldn't tell you for sure how much of a factor your high school

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... , which is a lovely lovely blessing. I haven’t slept in a room alone since ... planning this day out better, so that I wouldn’t have needed to call a cab. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  i'm taking a zoom call. — when i say i'd do it again, i mean it. if i ... different. and that isn't a bad thing. i like where i am at. i wouldn't want ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... don't, I guess) have a lot of experience with this other kind. I went ... When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  I’m comfortable with the material I’m presenting. Likewise I haven’t ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  D students. i don't think this is necessarily a good thing but it would be ... like me, helped me build a robot for fun (over several months). I don't ... either wouldn't have the skills and/or wouldn't be willing to put in a ton

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  can’t do MISTI I’m looking forward to this class. 21L.702 Studies in ... on a British lit kick lately so I’m particularly excited for this one. Should be a pretty good semester. I’m going to try to keep myself not too

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011