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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  glad that if I had to spend 40 hours a week in lab, at least I got to ... In the end we developed the "ModuWall," a Do-It-Yourself portable wall that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  . Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for ... acrophobia and just general disappointment in the way ladders are built, I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming ... ! (And here is example number 1 of me doing dumb things. I'm here all year ... out some survey that came in one of the many folders and envelopes I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... in this post is kinda uncomfortable lol"]cj.[/annotation] i soon came to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2 ... to be a valuable pause in the action. I know I’m sometimes less likely

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my ... side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... laid down a fact that would make any MITian proud, that if all the active

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... in and be in there for like fifteen minutes when all of a sudden I see ... So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in ... to a thousand more questions than the ones I came in looking for ... Policy, I believe my passion in these fields are infused with each other. A

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  that I would have such a reaction when I informed people about what I do ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... vile. Might I mention that my cooking partner, Danny, is flamingly vegan ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  place in Geneva with the particle accelerator that might create a black ... bar variety, but it is the thought that counts!) of course the crowd in ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  to do a thesis...also, I'm not ready to be a real person right now. I ... in a while, and revel in the fact that yes, you only have one class on ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  is a sign that you're doing it right! Allow a miracle to happen. As I ... 's room. Waking up to a loud banging noise is a pretty good sign that you ... was. In my panic, I had forgotten to ask. I slowed to a walk and pulled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  with in Simmons) and Maria. Not only do I have a cameo in this one with a ... cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  became a lot easier when the phrase "I don't know what that is ... argument; that’s a sign of weakness that will immediately result in losing ... . Don’t chime in on discussions about things you haven’t mastered. What do

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... past five years now, and it’s finally settling in that I don’t even know

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  , something i never thought i would do in week one. i still ask steven at least ... year and having improved and that feels good. i have a defined set of ... orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... "QuestBridge". Q: Where do I send my financial documents? A: Fax them to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012