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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  , I would provide shelter or food for them, resulting in a symbiotic ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family ... school, I would have been less likely to figure this out - I would have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6.034 - Artificial Intelligence: Mostly what it sounds like. I'm more interested in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4 ... telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  instance: if I get 2000 in SAT and 110+ [out of 120] in iBT TOEFL, would the ... . ------------------------------------- NoOneInParticular wrote: "Would it be inappropriate / discouraged ... . ------------------------------------- Glairflair17 wrote: "Would a 580 score on the SAT I math section be

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , I feel dead and lifeless."]I hate living alone,[/annotation]so in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not ... water snake, iirc.) I would definitely say I'm a superstitious person -- I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is ... and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... -somethings than something-teens. i regretted not living in seattle instead of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  now. in some world, i would graduate from MIT, and go to graduate school ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get ... would be feeling overwhelmingly sad and decide i am being ~cringe~ and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... Star Market! And it feeds 5 people! Why would you ever eat in a dining ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... ="aligncenter" width="346"] I was late for class that day 🙁[/caption] After 12 years in the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why anyone would ever willingly settle down, where i cannot understand why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  in scale was dramatic. I knew that it would be: when I solicited advice ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025