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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... virtually anything their heart desires. It's amazing. In case you're wondering ... presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that ... engineering (2), originally from Kansas. I live in Next House and am involved ... ’ll typically find me buying boba in Lobby 10, napping in Barker, or psetting in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike occasionally but the last full mountain I climbed was in 4th grade, when it was ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... noted, that would be European Pi Day (31/4), but I missed it this year ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  cappella and guitar. I listen to different music depending on how I feel a ... of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  the techniques I've seen in high school orchestra rehearsals about how ... nature of music in particular, but I'm constantly checking in with people—“how ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at ... popping up here and there on Facebook. My guess would be that this doesn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in ... plushies in my sleep. By the time I scan the alleyway four stories down and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  pool table above the Simmons lobby. I would explain the rules but I ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... all night again.] said that she has NEVER ONCE seen me locked in. And I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... morning routine slowly—I don't believe in breakfast, so I skip it, but even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  . Something about their intensity just draws me in. “But no, I’m a Pisces.” “Oh ... . Spotify holds such a place in my heart that I’ve said it’s one of my ... the emotions they spur in me. For this post, I thought I’d put my liked

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  asks: How is food in MIT? I remember you writing about that amazing ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  work through the problem, and I would be left in the dark in terms of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn ... : Yeah, I did that. I got my last grade in today. (MIT grades go up on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... would switch my major from [annotation note='i mean, how much thought had ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  go wrong? i lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and i would ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway, telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020