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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  fields with MIT; our co-identification with STEM is a core strength of the ... Lightning Talks, but it was very much a collaborative effort. The faculty took ...  Diana Henderson, Professor of Literature; MacVicar Faculty Fellow Why is a 400-year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they ... . It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  is way harder than it looks, but I hadn’t retained much of the actual ... ="attachment_110852" align="aligncenter" width="400"] the one in the back is a matcha ... how the color turned out, but I couldn’t use it as a gift anymore

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  component of my 8.02 grade. Due before every 8.02 lecture is a set of reading ... you could. And frankly, getting a B after all of that is something to be ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes. Wow, pancakes is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... -all really. Because what I mean to say is that I am feeling a feeling about ... , often alludes me. All I know is that I like or don't like how I feel about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  been to a harvard a capella concert before, and i had a great time! much ... pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still ... . anyway, last tuesday, andy and dylan made an undertale-themed menu, with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Tubers for as long as I can remember, so this is always a fun part of the ... Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  not, Orientation is also a great opportunity to learn about internships ... !) The UPOP office is a great resource that teaches career skills and ... I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural ... 's space flights have included MIT-educated astronauts, who have logged a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  ,000 days is a much longer time than three weeks, with a greater variety of ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... . Each is laid out in this way: “First, there is a picture, which shows an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Comics is a phenomenal store. A few weeks ago I bought some [annotation ... song is so well written and there’s so much raw emotion in it. I would ... Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  week is not much better. My brain is probably full of cellular debris ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue ... , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  how short it really is. Modern Ethiopian governance, a system of ‘ethnic ... . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... ” is hardly disputable, or “there was a war this year”, or “there was a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018