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  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  't be too hard, right? Not only did I want a different artist for each ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... , asked friends for feedback, wrote an email, and set up a spreadsheet. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design ... 'll be better at that after 6.002) and solder. I can use a drill press, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  weird, for me to ask this. From the outside, I guess, I could look like a ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a "nap", because I told a friend that I'd be free for a video call at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... chemistry and 7 meant biology; I didn't know where building 4 was and that you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  building a portfolio of work that I'm proud of until I can (maybe) do ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... below). What I heard was the sound of a middle school cafeteria x10. I ... from the stage. In total, I believe 4 rings were raffled off. The raffle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  students from a wide variety of backgrounds — including the [annotation note='For ... [/annotation] for our goal of building a talented and diverse class. When I have been ... different from mine will understand an applicant's context in a way I couldn

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Sunday morning, when a group of men from the old dormitory unit ... of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... was the first project where I built upon a decent amount of someone else ... Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for a few minutes. 12.52 pm: Caragay and I head out from EC. Our lunch ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... ends. I thank my professor for a good semester and leave. I have a 1 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you know where the building numbers are, you can navigate your way around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the tests for her. I can't complete the projects or lab work for her. But, I ... . I told myself whatever happens I would be there for her with a smile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  nice view,” I said. “It’s a different view than looking from a bridge or ... smooth, and digging out holes. I found a quiet spot to sit down, away from ... something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014