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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  advice - to get a pair of fresh eyes to look at your work, when you've hit ... is the career office, who I made an appointment with to get help with ... initiative and courage to get help, and appreciate it. In an e-mail I received

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  mandrill" with a long cylindrical prong to get a perfect circle. Once that ... get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall ... knew that I wasn’t only going to get his signature: I was going to get ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... kid who's into science; most don't get the chance to spend time with ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... to speed (not literally, Mom - I promise) over to the nearest Au Bon Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... essentially visit anywhere in the world for free, while getting to gain ... ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  much depth and motion she's able to get in such little time with charcoal ... sessions: getting to observe and be inspired by other people's processes ... piles up and I get hosed. I know how to make bold strokes; I just need to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  should get down soon, while I was anticipating the danger. I asked him to ... ://open.spotify.com/track/0ldDRR8LVWKQkAv5th9ZtY?si=2c0801df6ada486e I’d struggled to get into ... to the next pictures from there if needed!) https

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  nation by Newsweek. It's very hard to get into (but since my dad works ... your dad works -- would it be nice to get to see him frequently, or would ... an interview, and it would be a shame if I won't get a chance to show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  hang out with me as i wrangle my worms or make spontaneous plans to get ... heart going to the poetry store in harvard square with alan and getting ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  of getting one’s clothes muddy and missing a class, that they refuse to ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... 's applied to real-world problems. also, we get free dinner before every ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... catch up on sleep when you get home. Don't feel guilty for wanting to stay ... ... getting ready to help run the following French House events: Cards &

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs, looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... . This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013