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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... "goldilocks zone" - not too close to the star and hot, not too far away and cold ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  hen when it flowed over the people onthe street on a cold January day in ... Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  in, work on their thing, and have mentors/staff around to ask for help. In order to learn how to use the makerspace equipment or learn a new ... one is already welding. If someone is working in there, you'd knock to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

   wifi, the single faucets in our sink (we have separate hot and cold faucets ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... parkway in boston, so that i could actually climb the stairs to the bridge ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p ... . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... midnight).   As soon as you get off the plane, follow the signs to the Silver ... to read anything in the picture above. You can see the map online here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  one is a concourse Friday Seminar, in which we get to have great ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... -placement puzzle game, where you put engineers and scientists in certain nodes to try ... I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!”  “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in ... getting this far. In the meantime, hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories ... walking down the Infinite and can’t wait to get back to your dorm to catch a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the straightforwardness of New York. In a subway station en route to Ben's house in West

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... 'm interested in." I want to write more about this feeling later, since I think it ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  the only place where it's socially acceptable for me to get food in my ... from MIT's campus (we had to take two separate MBTA lines to get there ... kernels soaked in cold milk). Day 2 (Sunday) Veggie Galaxy (Brunch) Still

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and ... turning around the sun. When things get that small, weird stuff starts to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work laptop in one of the many dumpsters ubiquitous to the streets of Manhattan

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  through a thick nostalgia to get myself in my car, start the ignition, ease ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021