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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... remember going from trying to knit a simple square to designing intricate

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

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... Formula SAE – SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers – teams from ... always something you can do better next year. In Europe, where the electric

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  classes is remarkable). I loved doing a ~5 mile loop from New House, up the ... woodland trail in Michigan's capital city (I have a thing for capital cities ... live on a hill fairly close to Puget Sound, so on my daily runs I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... for giving you guys a psych lesson :( I just want you to know that it ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  and a friend as years went by. Freshman year was a shitshow. I could ... from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  of the bears. I'll be brief, for the sake of wit. First, Ling '07, Kendall '07, and I got a picture in front of the very popular United States ... I inexplicably neglected to get a picture of, featured a real mosaic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be ... have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... you're feeling really hardcore you can take 18.01A which shoves all of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  out of Legos. You know, you can get a UROP here? I mean c'mon, who ... number) Ok I'm done making you look at walls. We'll graduate from walls to ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  . (Can you pick me out in that picture? Let's play Where's Mollie!) I also ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... I live with him and we cook together, him going on a diet = me going

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  Campus for a year and BC for even less than that. Everything I've heard ... came from a genuine need for a private hosting space. Creative ... dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  when I can. Kiran also asks, "Is it true MIT is aiming for a class of ... decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering ... point doing it just for the money. But I know from your blog that you ... academic players in science and technology. For example, I recall a very

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  family, in a foreign country where I only somewhat speak the language, in a ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... MIT. Whenever I speak to him about a student's academic standing, he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... for the first time this year,[/annotation] and, as a person who is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  what joy we can from the place where we find ourselves. That's what I ... ="The Toast once said 'For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is ... manage your time, certainly, that crucial skill you can show off in a job

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021