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• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id ... logo of my floor in East Campus, Floor Pi. The symbols surrounding the π

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this floppiness is, we must first understand some differential geometry. In ... surface curves in 3D space at a given point on the surface. Each direction

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  the music. Rockin' in the Wind Do you ever hear wind chimes gently jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the shortest pledge in the class — none other than [annotation note

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... waits on one person before taking their photo but that one person is in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ...  (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of ... -sharing because I'm the only person who knows everyone in the room. So my strategy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups ... demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and what blind spots might be embedded in my studies as a math and ... and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  What the title says. [caption id="attachment_77399" align="aligncenter" width="356"] in my notes for 18.01a (single-variable calculus), specifically about the normal distribution[/caption] [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... instrumental in designing and building and maintaining almost every aspect of our civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and ... , likely still in my clothes from the day. I'm also around people more often

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are ... piece of literature in my life. Howl is for those who aimlessly take the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021