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  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is ... around with it. A good exercise would be to paste in an image (ctrl+v to paste from clipboard) and trace it like I've done here in red with this

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  . I thought it would be better to hone my intelligence in one or two ... . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails from Zimbabwe, in the first three days that I met him in person. In fact

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  in full supply. I am sitting in my palatial room in East Campus as I ... open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My ... 't already. Yum. Tuesday I woke up and drove to East Brunswick HS in NJ to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  i’ve ever read. on some level i already knew what the post would contain before reading it - i knew it would discuss the jack’s depression ... about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  extension that would allow users to copy-paste text directly from in ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I ... -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... group. So in late September, when Apple recruiters visited MIT, I leapt ... obsessed over my resume in LaTeX.  I even timed the walk from campus to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you ... , would Jupiter blow up? The gas giants are mostly hydrogen, but I guess you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in ... .011 is "traditional" physics, but I'm not sure exactly how one would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming traffic while walking and texting, but I think this technology would ... available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.   ... inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in ... well in such a short time, that anyone who speaks to computers would say

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In or Out?

  

  Out. I'm pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2010