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  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... to learn CAM. Manufacturing a yo-yo is fairly complicated. We

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play ... to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth ... plans for me   Boston Rain Walking to Copley Station really was a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious ... time to enjoy everything. A couple of my friends and I got to go apple

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  minutes each to complete. As you might imagine, particularly at a school ... decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... , GEL students are challenged to make their internships a more meaningful ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  , all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again ... ’t happen. 2020 was the year when I took a break, and I want 2021 to be the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix ... I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other blog that MIT pays me to write. So you should go over and read that now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... (unless I ask them or I can dig around and find a hacker to ask but I don

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  decided to buy a new samsung phone, and there was a convenient feature to ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  need to happen before an application is ready for review. It takes a lot ... all of the documents therein are yours, that it is ready to be evaluated ... , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... told to reload, and then to shoot again when we were ready. After a few ... competition, when we'd have ten minutes to discharge six shots into a paper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... popularity that Munroe decided to publish a collection of popular answers from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014