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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend part of my summer in Patagonia, Argentina ... I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  I also know, though, is that there is a certain merit in all of these ... in other outlets. I hope you can sit down and pet a dog. Or paint a ... rejection in your life by no means defines your worth or value. I hope you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... to support students. I considered majoring in Architecture when I was ... . I promised a student interested in dance that I'd post some links here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans ... One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... element was being suppressed in favor of talking up the product. (I know

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... start off the summer, I conducted energy poverty field work in Patagonia ... microscopes in the world... so cool. I broke my leg at a roller skating disco

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  In spirit, not much has changed over the last three years. Hi. I ... optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  , i just ran around the floor screaming me: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the ... term, or even one or two in the fall. I guess it depends on the four-year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... Wednesdays. My classes don't start until 11 AM each morning, and I have plenty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area ... getting immersed in startups. But I found that through the 100K I got

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , in reverse chronological order: I recently dropped a class, and even ... only classes I’ve gotten A’s in have been HASS classes. I didn’t get any leadership positions in the clubs I participated in. I didn’t have a fancy tech

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... hard work on your applications; I promise you we're responding in kind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... -apartments. The suite I'm sitting in right now houses 8 people, the largest suite on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... should not be the ways in which I'm learning something. It should be merely

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... study-abroad in South Africa, where I got to meet some of the kindest of ... ) Watch the sunset on a boat in Boston Harbor 18) Retook a class I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019