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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... (which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... most difficult thing i've ever written in my life. it's about suicide and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too.

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015