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  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  used to be a hotel! - and is in a really convenient location. So we have ... orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  to my friend Ty who is a senior in the house that was more experienced ... Acrylic in a 60 Watt Universal Systems Free Standing CO2 Laser Cutter Laser ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social ... figured I would try recruitment just in case. Recruitment week is a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... 's been a great four years in Beantown - but sorry, we're (hopefully) headed ... : 1) open a food truck in SF/NYC, 2) work in standardized testing field

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  knowledge, so, in case you are wondering what I mean, here is a link ... [annotation note="there is a Unicode Zero-Width Space in this blank space here ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  I had a Subway sandwich for the first time in almost a year and how ... In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  -Harry-Potter-related all-nighter (whoa that was a lot of hyphens!) Free sodas and coffees ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby ... what they were building in the courtyard before we took a detour on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned ... that I go here. Not even in a "I belong here!" sense, but that I am a) no ... drinking a lot of caffeine. I'm majoring in course 20 (bioengineering) 89

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the whole time. There is definitely much to be desired in the quality ... surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  plates of deliciously free Thai food, we all sat in a circle of desks as ... right now, I’ll throw in a free doodle! Yes, that’s right, I’ll answer ... was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... year, the brothers participate in a rather chaotic room assignment ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... . Leadership is a moment of helping each other live — in this life that ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  annotation, i wrote a grand total of 2 poems in 2020."]write as much recently ... next day. This means that you can evaluate how bad a week is going by the ... Pads last fall, IS&T also provided students free access to Notability, a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the ... mean, why would it need scrutiny, right? But in a markedly different way

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of ... distant past and hasn’t been held in a while, but this is actually louise ... ? every relationship is going to produce a decent amount of new anxiety. in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... humming and even doing a little jig in front of the Borderline murals. Even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  - who was a much less-assuming but still a pain - that is no longer the ... /drinking? A Dunkin' coffee I make at home in my favorite mug is all I need. My ... , I like to read at my desk which is in a corner near my apartment

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  . Campus Preview Weekend is full with free food all over campus. Open houses ... you're sleeping, you're also doing something wrong. There is so much ... Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere ... in 2009 (2010?). I can't tell you too much more without upsetting my ... sun rises at 6am sets at 8:30pm. You can get a tan sitting in your room

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007