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• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to buy christmas presents was not such a great idea for me this year ... Hindemith beat me to that by like 40 years), so I've been looking for a good anthology for a while now, and one that costs $8 and features unexpurgated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  overall jack-o-lantern? Stop by for a break and great stress relief ... . The winning team will get a cash prize of $50.00 for their floor. Laura ... Masquerade Masks for making Drinks, etc. and a COSTUME CONTEST!! Johnson Ice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a ... guess what a group's mailing list name might be). Take, for example, the ... allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this ... usually means burning a lot of fossil fuels. We can trade pressure for heat ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  tech career rather tan attending H. Does she apply for admission as a ... favorite programming language to an Inaugural Ball for a newly-elected dorm ... social scene. "a mother" wrote, "Wow, thanks for all the work matching pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.   ... , for one. hahahaha On a lighter note, I’ve also become more sure about ... I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... 't always a way to solve for x. What I also know is that I could have this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  your application essay for MIT should probably use a little more varied ... her the trouble. I might get a weekend cooking show for a month or so ... prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  day. Except on the first day, yesterday, I was awake for a grand total ... poster child for a big fat "NUH-UH". But blogging while sick should ... violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built ... is called a footprint, which needs to be specified for each component ... per misplaced LED, for a total of 50 traces across all of the boards

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an ... great group of friends. I thought about these two opportunities for a few ... , and innovator. For a full archive of Erick's posts, visit www.erickpinos.com.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . Basically, youth group was really important to me for a long time, and I ... ridiculous estimations. For example, on a recent pset we were asked to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about ... suggestions, I tried to make a Bayesian model for how a player's confidence ... I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  Season 1 of Breaking Bad and napped for a couple of hours. Anyway, we all made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... interrogated him. Turns out that this convention center is being used for a Music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and ... . I'll let a quick excerpt speak for itself (from the song: There's More ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... shouted along for the fun of it. Let me talk a little bit about cutting

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for ... -the-clouds, basking in the sunshine for a little while…You've worked hard (so, so, hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million ... is really cool for me, maybe I'll play a minutely important role in the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest ... , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005