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• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  a series of classes that a student can choose to take that helps build ... activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... would our hopes and dreams be dashed by a failure to launch? Before we

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three ... dedication to work, especially since I'm working so hard on securing a return ... times we'd go to our favorite pho place, Pho Saigon, a quick 5 minute walk

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  contest and win enough money to "buy [herself and her] baby a knew life ... (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to ... ! Unfortunately, this plan began to seem futile. A person who looked like he had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  school doesnt offer ap courses. however i did buy a book and am using it to ... %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... "]GTL[/annotation] applications rolled around, I waxed poetic about my desire to witness a real British landscape (no offense New Jersey). I was matched to a few schools in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather ... a master's degree have to write a master's thesis and are awarded a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... physics in a manner that was "exciting," or so to speak. To me, physics is ... class so far (with 8.01), that is graded strictly according to a certain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  'm ready to relinquish some of the little freedoms I have. I talked a lot ... I've been blogblocked a lot and I've been really trying to find ... 't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  backwards to figure out when I would need to finalize a list of pies, select ... Simmons ballpit pie. After that, I was a bit stuck. Should I try to ... , or just focus on a few? To delay the inevitable need to make a decision

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... three blankets on the floor. A few weeks ago, I had to choose whether to order a bed from Amazon, IKEA, or Wayfair; I ended up deciding to get an

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  prepared a few questions and came into the interview ready to ask any ... and such. When it came to history, however, all that was offered was a ... the MIT Faculty in their collections. I sent in a request to retrieve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... ensues After landing in Italy, we took a bus ride down to Sermoneta, where

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... needed to write quite a lot to say not just what it is like, but why we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , we have a peaceful dawn and an idyllic sundown, yet they seem to mostly ... the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... in the town. Newport is a lovely town and it was definitely not made to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the ... : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show ... : Intro to Acting Dropped before COVID Grade: N/A    6 ... : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always ... belonging to New York. What happened Tuesday? Having days off feels a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020