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• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  , Okay, I guess certain aspects aren’t that much different than how I was ... -thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  everything that I saw. But often I found myself asking questions. "Cool! How ... -mount components like that?" "How did you make that cake levitate?" I'm an engineer by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can ... allowed me to explore the limits of what I can do, in ways that I never ... next thing. How can I make something that lasts or that matters within

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... . Is it blessed or cursed? I can't say for sure, but now it's on the ... in this post, this is the only one I had planned out beforehand

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  see how I didn't need to squeeze everything in as soon as possible. You ... the time college application season rolls around. I can't speak for how ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  because they know how tough this school can be. And frankly I think the ... it? I don't think I can cover all of this in one blogpost but I can ... vibrant, vibrant creative community that I adore. You can see this in nearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  MIT proper, I have been in Spain for more than two weeks! I don't know how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... beautiful country. Recap (for people who are wondering why I'm in Europe

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  can’t imagine how the seniors feel. I did recently discover the field ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ; let me give some more legitimate examples: i played piano briefly in ... i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  timespan and then can knock out the problems in no time. I now spend about ... learning but life in general this semester, and I can fully say I am ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... sequences I've put in are way too similar, and essentially, the tree search is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  tests like at MIT?" How did I know, right? I'm just so in tune with what ... involved in that bus going over that cliff?? How?! And why isn't it next Wednesday already?!" I know, I know, it's all I can keep thinking about too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... these days. Adapting.   . . .   I grew up in that house, but ... in Iowa that had barely changed since I left it, and my old friends

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , so I kind of told him how I thought it was done in theory and made him ... brown... how could I resist? I'll be in Dyke, VA for the next day or two ... Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  home, and what falls in between. And yet, while I stress about what I ... would happen? How can we believe that it is occurring? But we are also ... , here you go. I think it represents very well how we are all feeling about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept