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• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything ... in my life. After all, who really cares?   3. "I've met a lot of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this ... graduate, how I got started in VR, every blog post I've written related to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  hate that I can't understand Malayalam, or feel comfortable in any ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  -thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... system! In the meantime, you can watch me talking at Maker Faire last May ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... challenge that can always be met. In his lectures, he starts with a problem ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a small covering near the door. As you can see, I am completely drenched in ... was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... whatever. Dancing, singing, playing games. In a way, it's no surprise that I ... of me that honestly regrets not pursuing media earlier in life. Had I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  again! I can't say I regret the intensity of the emotions I experienced in ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... behind silver and gold no one can see   I am from memories

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005