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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... would look good with my limited abilities. After some trial and error, I ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  reading Brave New World in English 100. I miss the way my teacher would turn ... would. I miss playing in the stands at football and basketball games. I ... that. If I could go back I would spend more time in the parking lot, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying ... problem sets were hard... and I'd never learned to manage my time wisely in ... place. I skipped class a lot more frequently than I did in my upperclass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  know you online and in person, and I have loved your memes and inside jokes. Now that I'm leaving the Institute, I feel confident that it's in ... by Admissions. In my freshman year 8.01 Physics I, my two groupmates

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in ... couldn't help but think that this wasn't something I would have done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  a person and not an inanimate object, I think I probably would’ve been ... ."]MISTI[/annotation] internship, I participated in Vardavar, a festival where everybody–men and ... blessing. I got soaked–and so did Marla! In one last act of rebellion, she

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about ... make eye-contact, she starts advertising in Chinese, "Buy some lotus seeds!". Every time I see her, i want to stop by and buy some, but I haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  places. I would be stuck in a traffic jam, and my mind would imagine a ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... funny teachers and weird classes. I would have made all the right absent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT ... present. I hate physics, so of course my family buys me a book about physics ... they talk about in the book because I see it every day! Little Red book

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  surprisre: he bought an app, on the spot, that would use the iPod's built-in ... would suggest, or in other fields -- perhaps algorithms? -- but I do know ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  I would have been in Random Hall, on BMF, at my desk with the door ... me an excellent view of anyone coming or going. In January 2015 I would ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  explanation; I had crafted it carefully while waiting in line. What would his ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won ... .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back

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

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... gonna- "I'm gonna buy that book." But what about another example- "I'm going to the baseball game." Would you ever say "I'm gonna the baseball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  bc I got his name verbally) is an ABSOLUTE GEM!! His energy would brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to ... someone who hasn’t changed their Chipotle order in years, I appreciate how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... rolled in: I joined a LARP, watched a play, played some board games. Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005