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  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof ... longer dread"]rain.[/annotation] i'm definitely going to be a little ... 'd been late to class a couple times, and one day we were writing practice

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with ... problem-solving skills to a lot of huge companies who want to be more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  to the whims of a transactional public who view education solely as a ... stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of ... difficult to come away from a visit with a member of our staff without having

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to ... try to take naps if you’re stressing about making a deadline. I

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the ... to a group of awesome middle schoolers and officially discovered the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  -difficulty and age appropriate tasks to make the challenge a fun experience for ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... that a lot of them are going on to bigger and better thing. So when ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... Boston. It's also home to a football field-sized reflecting pool, which ... the shade and tried to finish a final project report due that afternoon

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren ... 's a great place to study. The reading room in the library is the inside ... brown thing to the right isn't a desk, nor is the table. There's a girl

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  've never truly made New Years resolutions with a strong commitment to them—I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn ... [/annotation]without a definite idea of what I want to study. I knew I wanted a biology

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... southern view from the Baker roof (click to see a bigger version): And here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games ... school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... tangent] She was supposed to be a Dodgers fan, hence the blue hat and shirt

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I ... the less money I had to beg from my parents, the better. They paid a lot ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone ... at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an ... to do with my summer. Last year, I started off my search a little late

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005