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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do ... writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better ... .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  Nanotron project. The Nanotron is like a cyclotron, only really small. Nano-sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a ... project makes me realize just how much I've learned in one year here and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  teachers, students, and researchers understand how research is done at MIT ... the only one posted right now, but there is much more to come! I hope you all take a moment and browse through it. It is a really great

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  pasta. How about a tomato?" (Hi, Mom.) Aside from that, we bought some ... a half, since painting is allowed in Senior House and Institute White is boring. Speaking of Senior House, our tire swing died a week ago

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... , where Crucial Admissions Business is voted upon. I also learned a bit ... Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  business which brings you this entry a few days late. Now, here is a blog ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my ... improvement is that I am not crying in a bathroom, and I’m handling it. I got a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway ... that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... CPW for a vivid glimpse of how students can fully transform their living

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in the Life.  This is one day where students all over campus - grad

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens ... an important question is how did I end up here at MIT? Well, let's take ... by the way, my name is Bryan. How do you do?

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  like what makes a good online video and how the medium is evolving – than ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir (subtitled A Family

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  --you're the best! Not too much time to celebrate though. I had a flight back ... It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas have penguins on them. It is decidedly winter. But at pika, it's spring ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  I've been Operating. Death From Above is a HUGE team (our mailing list ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  think my thought process with this was "how absurd/unusual of a topic can ... admissions officers." I don't know how much of this min-maxing was really ... connoisseur. Unfortunately, the nearest Indian restaurant is a ways away. Whilst

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  how they got a $1 shirt from the guy and some smiley cookies?!! which is ... because their mascot is a penguin). Maybe people who like penguins just ... friends, August, is a Gemini, and the similarities clicked in my brain

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio ... compelled to highlight a particular talent or skill that they believe is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  asking, Nat?! What's a Poetry Slam?! How do you competitively read poetry ... Slam is held in a different exotic location in the US and, for the second time since I've been at MIT, that location is Boston! In fact, quite a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... from a sleeping position (not much unlike lecture). We grabbed a strap ... 2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... entirely tuned out my surroundings when a thirty-something-ish man steps over ... 's questionably-colored carpet. I don't know what it is about me and public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007