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• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , [annotation note="Note: here I mean the time I took off for an in-person hospitalization, but taking time for mental health can look like many things in ... simply an in-person inpatient hospitalization that lasted for a week, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  "] an invasive shopping cart caught in the wild[/caption] We pulled the ... practicality we hade up for with legs, time, and an indomitable spirit. Fiona ... ', Carl is actually named after the giant extraterrestrial robot in An

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  homecoming game (or parade). Audition for a role in the school play. Tell your ... I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  they'd hire me. They asked me to come in for pre-employment testing ... emails to see about UROP openings. I had two interviews, one for a UROP in ... Brown on an eyetracking monitor. The videos are exploratory, in which

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  recognizing you for your accomplishments. Look for scholarships, and try hard ... community organizations, but I didn't put in the effort that I should have for ... for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  with microwave-frequency light - in case you weren't aware, LASER is an ... Wolfgang Ketterle, who works in the Center for Ultracold Atoms and won the ... , however, whatever system MIT has for this purpose kicked in, and my Facebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for ... about in the blogs all year (me included). You can follow Ben's blog for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA ... signal looks like when it's 1/3 of the full brightness: [1] Just for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the ... doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  twice a week for an hour in Dupont. If you know me in real life, you know ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in linguistics for an entire year, and I loved it, but by the end I felt like I was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  The years have come and gone. You find yourself now at an intersection and you are told it is time for you to commence your life and jump ... passed. What was this place in which you spent these years? When your eyes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  , checking for sign errors or gaps in understanding. This is not my favorite ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... day, prepping ten pages for a workshop. The main character is an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is ... with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  piercers would swap out the original piece in the piercing for something else ... hurt tremendously and it bled for about an hour after the procedure ... . Moreover, they always allow for walk-ins, which was great since I could just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  , in the moment, can seem heroic and good for a company. After all, they ... mistakes made in lecture and was thanked for catching them, so that ... the things I applied to so I know what my commitments will look like for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students. While the fair was specifically tailored to graduating seniors looking for ... way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  the practical uses are for an igloo in 8 °F weather - the most obvious ... denier). I see lots of snow every year and Boston has felt WARM for most of ... BAD IT WAS. I have never - in my entire life - seen 20 inches of snow

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... Phonology, so it's on my mind. In this post, we'll look at some facts about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... looks to his or her peers for validation or rebuttal. He is overly ... also look at a different example. Mills performed well in high school

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  student learning for 10,000 incredible smart young people – wow! (As an ... should a residence-based educational experience look like in a world of You ... the classroom of 2020 look like? Should there be classrooms in 2020

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011