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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  ://vimeo.com/26010884 I think students who come here should be ready to let their passions fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... had a 2.5’ x 3.5’ whiteboard that served as a message board—something to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... this amounts to less than a year. I guess prior experience in competitive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... . I thought this was just a laughing matter, but I was shocked to find ... make a total of [annotation note="to be fair, they do taste really good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant ... field trips and buy things for your projects using a budget. The class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs ... as a computer science major.  I'll add another disclaimer here to say ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  *voluntary* thing that is totally unnecessary to living a happy, fulfilling ... a foothold on why they wanted to Do The Thing beyond these reasons ... contributing to your 401K; a fire that’ll help you answer the existential “what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... 's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to ... , running initial experiments to see which one had potential to become a paper

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023