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• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  clambered over boulders until we found the peak, looked out over a wide and ... on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... they looking at? We got closer. The glass cases held reptiles: snakes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer ... lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition ... our professor said the lab would remain open all night for last minute ... season at Emerson College on Wednesday night. Preparation for the game was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  week, with a friend. This is, apparently, the most effective way for ... friend who's at the gym waiting for me--well, I can't just not show up, can ... time with books means spending time with music. My playlist for the month

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  wires under the couch when I was really looking for my cell phone (good ... of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... should also maybe warn you that this post is full of ~spoilers~ for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  critically and broadened my perspective on the world. I look forward to ... person thinks it is, and that goes double for the human parts. People argue ... .  What are you excited for for the future (can be personally, for society

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... "]happened.[/annotation] I can’t help but wonder what the landscape would have looked like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors ... bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence, sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that ... also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... someone steal the pedals off my bicycle Had ten other appointments with the VA Had a few other problems I’d rather not share here Struggled

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... from a tour bus, locked myself in a bus bathroom for 10 minutes…The list ... grateful for them. Look up word pronunciations before I try to use them

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for ... quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon. I’ve compiled the corniest collection of these quotes into power

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  bar trivia the cocktail class - MIT offers a cocktail making class for ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... . tl;dr i wasn't *super* looking forward to this IAP. but HOLY crap

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  through, for reals. Maybe it was because the Orpheum has arranged seating ... need to ask for help. That's why we have pass/no record. The space dog ... 'll still probably pile up everything you've worn for the past week at the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... Carter, Crossing the Bar, and Too Funk For the Folkies . Pi MIT goes HARD for Pi day. The Alumni Association has been sending emails (that i don

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... looking to embody the MIT motto ‘mens et manus’. Nevertheless, we have been

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark ... [/annotation]. It was yet another event I was wholly unprepared for--the most fire ... school. Sadly, the event was axed for safety reasons, or so I thought. Just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two ... spring, I registered for a math seminar, one of the higher-level math ... topic for the semester was "Fourier Analysis on Finite Groups." This set

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up ... managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... of a concept that Tagalog has a single word for it: ingat. It's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  with except for the fact that you're squinting because you were staring ... first. You'll register for an appointment at the RMV to take the permit ... complete the first step. Take driver's ed, that's fine -- it's a rite of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024