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  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  something from everyone you meet, whether it’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln or ... many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it, inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  viewing of Underwater Dreams, the MIT community got a chance to hear from ... Engineering and another a Master’s student from the Department of Urban Studies ... of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM ... YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  I got this email a few days back... From: Laura Nicholson Subject ... for their invention "the Claw" for hanging a bicycle from the ceiling ... from ABC.com: Craig Forest & David Moeller, a team of two former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  food, but also 2) intentionally offer dishes from a variety of cultures ... food you’ve ever eaten in your life. After a 4-hour flight delay (from a 5 AM flight to a 9 AM one), I’m finally home. Typing this from my very

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  looking at it. While Shana may have been a little more compelling from a ... have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  [annotation note="It wasn't an article from the Harvard Crimson. It was a ... Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... promise that my other posts are a lot better. FUBN USELESS FACT:  

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  breakfast, nearly fell asleep in every lecture as a result, rushed from my ... , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my ... instinct was to call a friend from London, but a combination of expense and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  [a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers' intro posts - don't worry ... - here’s a large subset of all the good memories I have from this summer ... whirlwind, but what I took away from it was a noticeably heightened knowledge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... you follow it a bit further. (Don't take candy from strange physics ... reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  the less money I had to beg from my parents, the better. They paid a lot ... 'm actually funded by a grant from the Japanese research institute RIKEN. I ... 've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  from a math/science instructor, and one from a humanities, arts, or ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... from [10th grade, 12th grade], but [it was 2 years ago, they will only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... - Mechanical Engineering When I was a freshman, I filled up my IAP with so many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] A nice diagram I took from science4all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  47 paper cranes dangling from my ceiling, with another 71 living in a ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  illicited a giant cheer from the crowd, the likes of which you might hear ... Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years ... 's a pop culture icon. It's a beacon of kinship between alumni. It's an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... think of him as a rejected reject though; instead, I think that he was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A ... . That's a topic for another day, though; as promised, here's the follow ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from prospective students.  Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly, a significant number come from parents whose children are years away from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023