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  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... , partially because I had given up on trying to dodge his small children for ... know if you ever want a job," he told me, "I've been looking for a Super

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded ... completed [annotation note='see this post for a better explanation, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... Yellow Team identified was that for guitarists, it's hard to write down

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... count. The result has been really quite nice for me. I'm easily

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... .tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes ... challenging. I clambered over rocks, roots, hills and mountains for 20-30 miles

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  discretion, for dinners or study breaks or even appliances for the wing to ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... train in Kenmore and go basically anywhere short of Rhode Island for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... changed every round. All I needed to do was report our team’s answers for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... you to great outcomes that you otherwise would never experience. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... with my sister for the blue[annotation note="This was followed by my ... is for girls and girls are weak and i Am nOt LIkE oThEr Gi

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  was there for. There had been signs up all over campus for a week or two ... review for those seniors who are struggling with the concept in the 7.01x ... for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival, so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which we both think is TOTALLY ... !" without contracting hypothermia for much longer) - some people are laughing ... everyone else was celebrating - I was celebrating going shopping for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... change the way you think about writing. I keep Orwell's rules for writing ... .   But the same is true for college essays, as Orwell doubtlessly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  dadlike way, corrected me, kindly but sternly: I was not lucky, he said, for I had worked hard, very hard, for a long time. Both of these things ... fact, they are both necessary conditions for any kind of success. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012