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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’s shabbos candles. The door handle is a beaver cast in bronze.  [carousel ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  who is now on sabbatical. A different professor approved the UROP in the ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... for a minor in this one, which is a new development, with five

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... free from anxiety. This semester is pretty unique for me. I am studying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  I wanted the free wireless), and the guy who was working there made a ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... drive anytime soon.) Fiber arts became a frequent topic in my ... Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  . Sorry person-who-will-not-be-named-here, not everyone’s brain is a robotic ... a “super long break” with the incorporation of IAP, but everyone who ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  [annotation note="Scratch is a unique programming language in that it isn't text-based ... internship. Meghana K. '21, the [annotation note="A person on exec in charge ... two weeks after my interview, I was offered a spot in CodeIt. Training

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  spooky formatting ghosts. I recommend drafting your posts in a free plain ... teacher, and one from a guidance counselor. Find the teachers who will be ... words there are in a given text, and if this happens, well, trust My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks ... holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  research. And who can forget Wiki racing? Such a great high school pastime ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Water Project is that, sadly, as many wells as I could possibly build in a ... ? This is a question I don’t think I thought about too hard when I was ... ” a bad thing--who wanted to be a girly girl??? Not me! I was rough and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  home (MIT, that is; home would've been 10 minutes further in a different ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  'll already be in Germany. The German Requiem is a really amazing piece of ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented ... conductance. Conductance is measured in Mhos and is represented by an upside

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many areas of the ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in ... legend. In addition, Arrigo was a gifted writer and poet: he wrote the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  is preparing everyone here to make a palpable difference in the world ... scavenge the kitchen or hope for a free-food e-mail to land in my inbox. I get quite a number of free-food e-mails on an almost daily basis, and in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  would kill a Victorian child. There was something incredibly freeing in ... you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  noticed, and appreciated, when a woman who worked in stained glass explained ... advertising riding lessons. A few accident lawyers were distributing free t ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  combined study in humanities with either science or engineering. 21S is a ... humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021