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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... largest outdoor market in Africa. You can find virtually anything there ... sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on ... ). Theoretically, I live in East Harlem, since we have the East Harlem zip code ... "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  your genes." Sitting in Lobby 10 with Ruth '07, contemplating buying an ... -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards ... really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have ... -- never buy things for which you can't immediately pay (if you can help it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  the deadline? And in the same envelope? Am I in trouble? Let's take the ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... documents, and I hope you can understand why. Please be patient. If the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  would be in custody of my younger brother, which, okay yeah I can see why ... where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Putz): "I'm working in the Media Lab's Tangible Media Group on a new ... 2, of Simmons): "I'm off to be a girl scout camp counselor in Plymouth ... Senior Haus): "I'm spending the summer UROPing on campus, working in a lab

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  something that could buy X amount of Y. I told her I always jokingly see money ... distance it can buy you. She sees money as a way to unlock the ability to ... the first time in my life, I underpacked. It's another scary feeling—I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed ... in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science ... flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful ... comfortably speak in Spanish without people judging me, especially since I'm not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  super great at theory in Mechanical Engineering, I can say I know CAD and ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  encounter situations where crisp, compelling writing can express your feelings ... , always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I ... little sound effects where you need them. Adjust the hues in a scene to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  recommend. I met a girl from Germany who used Aupair in America, where the ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... I stayed with were very flexible, in that they wouldn't tell me when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020