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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in ... in front of a camera and talk about science!" – so it was really great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  "]for historical reasons,[/annotation]opened in April of 2018, after SL1, SL2, SL4, and SL5 were in service. CJ: We filled a couple blackboards following ... route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... explained in one of my earliest blogs, freshman Cami learned the importance of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping ... hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... consumption over a month: they found that a net positive increase in movies per ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020