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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early ... . there are very few women in the game industry and this is still a huge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  often were, much of it still felt like a fantasy. In hindsight, Blue is ... made me realize that nothing is unusual either. There is not much to say ... activity, like a job, anything else feels off. Now of course, work is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... of drunk, but drunk enough. Belinda started the day with a bottle of vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  , Apple Bake is a little more serious. It’s on our shirts, it’s in our blood ... The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be ... a bajillion pictures - as per female i ... squealing* Yeahhh, MIT! Our boat went kind of slow at first, but after a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  'm not as much of a deadbeat roommate as I look. April and I share stuff ... a big poetry person, but I liked his stuff. I have no idea how well it ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  for a week, I can confidently say it feels SO much better than what I ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... minor, it's a really big character development for me. To start off, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... , is: Life presents us with many obstacles, challenges and adversity; we

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during IAP, which is popularly described as "MIT without the work", i.e. the mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by ... be taking a lot of classes where all the material is completely new ... , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  't really remember what happened, but it doesn't seem like too much of a ... with us, and greets me with a jolly "Hello! How are things in Harrisburg ... have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  because of how much physics was involved! We had to create a grid of spheres ... , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  . The hardest part about essay writing for me is actually coming up with a ... questions they will inevitably be asking. It is a truth universally ... applying for. For example, a med school application is definitely going to be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  to take a picture of, so I did my best: And if you're curious how much ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  , and gardening as a child, and why I loved both and how they’d shaped me ... fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being ... for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... started taking over the lives of its founders!! Here is a quote from an ... incomplete list of builders is here. Here are a few pictures I took for their

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors ... ’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... staff will be observing Pi Day 2025 — which, NASA tells me, is also a ... meter. BEATRICE: Ridiculous! A sphere?? That’s not how fluid dynamics

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  2014 didn't look familiar at all, as well as how much affection I felt ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016