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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  't ride the subway enough for this to be worthwhile, you can just pay each ... room, I'm almost positive you can find it at Target. There's also a Bed ... myself who like to window-shop at Tiffany. You can get to them on the Green

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  take your freshman year, you can take more classes in your major and ... results. It's really great if you can come into MIT and take sophomore ... . Alternatively, you can take 8.012 and 8.022, which are physics for masochists

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... Early Action, but I can still read it if I know which file to open. :-) If ... few emails about this: unfortunately I can't offer feedback or advice on

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , then I can’t go to event A tomorrow, which will prevent me from doing ... generates ALL possible stories - but it can’t. Because the world is so vast

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... ago so that undergrads like me can use these tools for this exact ... light interact with a chemical, which can tell you things like which atoms

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  can be a little scary. I think it’s especially hard at MIT because it ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... the South. On campus you can find me creating stuff in one of MIT’s many

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... professor. But in reality, each step can be incredibly, and somewhat ... time. But I look back on my time here, and I can't help but feel like it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... training session each week. During open hours, MIT community members can come

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  thus any adjectives may be attached to it. It can be apocalyptic. It can be dazzling. It can be destructive, or it can be beautiful. This ... has not demanded anything from us, we can imagine it to be anything we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of loneliness can be cured.” when i first listened to this episode ... loneliness is and how hard community-building is and how transformative it can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  the seasons-- that I'm okay with. I can anticipate it. But sometimes, a change is so quick you can't even process what's happening. Flashback to ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  , where i know if i put in enough hours, i can do it. if i ask the right people for help, i can do it. it's not like homework where people actively ... like punching air. i can punch harder, but i'll only get tired faster

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... overhyped, but I also think this industry is very promising and can eliminate ... reminded me again that working a full-time job can make the days seem like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... code next week for a different project called TRANSFORM so that it can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here ... : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... important, because that's one way you can get better at doing something. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that there’s not much I can do now besides put myself back together. I’m trying

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  interesting to see how programs can be optimized to save time and memory. Program Security: There was some emphasis on how we can ensure data is protected, and how we can choose to safeguard variables and methods from

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup ... . "If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new ... other MIT students on the street, so if I really squint, I can feel like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020