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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  family history, about how she arrived back in Cambridge - "and when I got ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... slept in long underwear), tried to remember who and where I was, and stole

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  . Stuff about how rules are worth making so you can bend/break them (both in ... 't. (Fun fact: I never learned how to whistle before coming to MIT ... final jam session. Q: How can one overcome the barrier to entry for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  can be part of an MIT community even after I graduate, regardless of how ... comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... it. if i already know what i want, and believe in it hard enough, is ... until i think about whether i'm doing it. i'm reminded of this saying in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... the numbers around how money at MIT works can be found in the recently ... place running. I have, in the past, heard of MIT's administration

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... as LGBTQ?” and “How often do people in your living group use words such

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... of (mostly) ugly clothing. I had a general color scheme in mind, and we ... shoot in the basement of East Campus. I was inspired by the different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  . Now onto some harder questions... “How hard is MIT?” When I asked this ... specific, I know). CJ has written extensively about these old catalogs in ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... arcade project that my friends and I worked on in January. He gave me some

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... alone in this pain, and that I really admire each and every one of them ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... from MIT to work in Apple's iPhone Product Design team.  He spends most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... know how every puzzle in this hunt works. Throughout the year, I ... that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... time, I can't even stress that enough), you can develop interests in ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I learn best. What I found after Interphase was that lectures alone didn't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s so many weebs in this school…jkjk” but then I was like “... unless ...   dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023