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• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  build a viral events framework in a technology ecosystem), I've found that ... productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  and I benefited from the fact that, even back in 1982, MIT already had a ... specifically tell us in surveys that it is because attending a diverse ... % in 1982, and is 86% now. It is clearly the case that MIT is a more

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  between two walls in a room that was suddenly too wet and too narrow. He ... plop. In that moment, just before something of a seizure grabbed him, Ted ... the dull pain in his head grew to a raging thump that threatened to push

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just ... , but I had already gotten that in quarantine. What would I even do with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... with a Harvard graduate student at the Broad Institute in December that I ... continuing my search for a UROP and finding one that I could do over the summer

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  , because I feel like that's the only way I know how to do things. Learning ... . Something I've been telling myself a lot is to just try my very hardest in ... mixed in with "God, I hope all this time pays off, then." So how do we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  read economics papers. While I never learned how to do it directly as a ... effects (e.g., my friends learned that I do well in school) and private effects (e.g., I learned that I do well in school compared to peers) of such

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  run across the street to turn in homework, but I do appreciate how new ... I, which is basically a primer in group theory and linear algebra ... week in December, and it is a lot of fun! Would highly recommend

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  etiquette. Yet, I also suspect that true closure is, in some sense, a myth ... doing whatever my part is, and then, in a blink of an eye, whether three ... just a bigger version of that. I still keep doing shows, even though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  . The memorial is composed of 32 solid blocks of granite that form a five ... last as long as MIT does. Maybe it will last longer. This is a very ... killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  , which is a bummer considering how when I got into MIT, I texted my friend ... , panicked animal in me saying that I should be doing more, more, more, more ... for a month because I got so caught up in my tryharding that I couldn

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  began disappearing. I needed a job. I needed something to do at MIT that ... say that not only am I taking a full schedule but that I am also working two jobs (and doing a varsity sport). I maintain my sanity and so can

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... express that in words even though i think i'm normally a very articulate ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  strenuous studies. Maybe that was why I wound up with a B in the class: because I never gave myself a break in that class, leading to numerous ... + looks exactly like an A-, which in turn looks like an A. That's great if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  wholesome. I would love to find that photo."]Take a selfie with tourists ... this I do not want to be your friend"]write a script[/annotation] to ... , maybe because you don't want to explain that it is not, in fact, the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards ... that high above my head. Yeah, I know, I should work out. This past week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... give a talk that i unfortunately missed because i was stuck in lab. I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025