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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  . Same classes, same classmates, everyone is doing the same assignments and ... , maybe an AP Apple, a Boxed Mik of a Basic Language, and a Common Core ... ’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few ... boyfriend #1) for a couple of years and told myself that, despite getting gas ... high school romance and I was like yeah I love this dude. And then at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  MIT: Brandon, who graduated from MIT in 2009 and is working on his PhD at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... lived in Random Hall as an undergrad, back when Clam and Bonfire were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and ... accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country—and ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I built my own? I could easily make the entire camera (used lens and all

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you ... , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... dodgeball match tonight and afterward we're having a post-dodgeball fondue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... includes even receiving long-distance calls, and placing them costs extra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  fragile and raw, and I had to protect that. But, the chaos of life has subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... it something? Yes! And is there value in writing, again and again

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a yearlong effort, culminating in one joyful night of celebrating art and ... begins at 8AM, and the event starts at 5PM, so come with me as we go behind

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  clings and clangs of construction (because Boston-Cambridge is always under ... close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the ... , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the ... fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and orange with my sunflower tapestry and comforter. I also bought a blue ... choice because the colors made no sense together and she moved out after a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... pizza and Indian food, we raved about how much [annotation note="I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my UROP mentor and elaborating on just how inspirational and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... observed but did not participate in. I swung on a rope swing and stacked milk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021