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• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... 'll get tons of opportunities to travel and see other cultures and maybe even some wild animals. It all sounds really fantastic to me. But for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  side-effect from being here for so long - you become tethered to your ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  -stop until we have enough to stock the sale? [caption id="attachment_92115 ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  a metric ton of string and pray (to any and all deities out there ... [/annotation] and asked if we were going to make [annotation note="Because Winnie ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work ... IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  burned out; they stick around for mentorship, and to field a barrage of ... ; people often stick around for a few years after graduating, whether to get ... try and fail: to tackle hard psets, to sign up for difficult classes, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  ) to really be working on path-critical items for our project, and to ... construction robot I work on for my UROP--more on that later!) attached to a ... ) it also meant being sore for days. But I loved it!! We just went to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are attached to it. For example, here are the FTIR spectra of silk and ... , which makes it very easy for me to identify the material. [caption id ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

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

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  virtual reality headset for myself to start messing around and developing for it. I stood up, walked over to the table, put the goggles down ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  YFrOJb6C?si=o030fn5zS9Gd32nsLdru2A I listened to mxmtoon for the first time ... to deeply appreciate this album and the time that we shared it. For ... to [insert mildly obscure musician here], and their random album from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... on my left side, not unlike trying to swim the sidestroke on land. My ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  control airplanes to fulfill missions for a national competition. Design ... 's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you want to do (and learn!), and seemingly not enough ... to do with linguistics, but I suppose MIT does offer a club for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  to hop on a call? Most of my meetings are for a purpose and manage to ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... ! Thanks to Lytro for this interactive photo. Click to refocus!

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  's not like I'm going to be locked up in Building 46 for 40 hours a week. I ... for now. Maybe MIT is a big block of marble: everything it has to ... -wide Drop Date, where we choose either to abandon ship from our most hopeless

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026