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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... 't burn any holes in the actual seat tube, I welded that. The welds weren

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes ... happened in the past and be born again in this new world, shedding away the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and eba and fufu and egusi and suya. In America, food is burger and pasta and coleslaw and pizza and fries and Coca-Cola in three cup sizes. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... built a radio telescope that could fit 57 tennis courts. Bell was put in charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  "]Kalayaan,[/annotation] we bumped into each other Each with their own ambitions in life Under ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard ... on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our ... worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i ... , there was solace in having this one place where everyone could return to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light ... there could be an exoplanet in that area. [caption id="attachment_102062

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021