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• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored ... inspiration since it would be easy to mount on the gun since the gun required a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  no other. In high school I became interested instead in poetry; not ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... Christmas gift wrap. I mean, economical gift wrap. (Bonus challenge: In the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly ... Sliced Roast Beef [mmmm roast beef] Applegate Sliced Turkey [in case I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  computer programming in high school, and I knew the next logical step would ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The truth is, I’m actually majoring in 6-2 (electrical engineering and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in ... spots. Now, take the sum of everything that I've just written, factor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  --walking thru the Infinite today has been so exciting! 18:51: I spy free food in ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... ) wristband. Happy Monday, MIT! Also my roommate picked up my first paycheck in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed ... Thanksgiving dinner as I'm sure my family had back in Ohio, but don't tell Adam I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire ... overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... much done all the work so far. sometimes i wonder what my life would'

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning ... and I were going to the local supermarket, Shaws, to buy ingredients to ... A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... about what would make me happiest in a college experience, I made good ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules ... feel great when i do this. so recently i’ve been wondering what it would

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... bathroom. Of course, according to Murphy's Law, I passed two professors in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... . Alicia and I were sitting in the suite one morning discussing, among other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  coincidence that would never happen again, or whatever. And now that I'm almost ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... ordering the Indian food I have open in another tab. Peace out, cub scouts.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010