Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... . My younger ears knew that it was a very prestigious school in sunny ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... generate these signals in real time and feed them into the oscilloscope. The ... Tetris as a built-in easter egg. Putting it together With this background

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... laundry list of things going on in my life that can possibly make me tired ... .  It’s a nice view. Concrete strip malls and multilane highways in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways to avoid this though. But I personally don't want to put in the work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  ="aligncenter" width="592"] RESCIND[/caption] So let's begin. In middle school and a ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the ... lot of comfort in OTV content. Being so absorbed into social media for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... with dial-up internet. That’s the issue with living in the country, slow ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  registration form for CPW?" You can register for CPW in your MyMIT Portal. Just click on the Registration link in the big red CPW box in the lower right ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... sociology discussion about gender roles and stereotypes in flirting and dating

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• 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 / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 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