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• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... given a lottery number, and then the games begin; the lottery for the ... my freshman lottery, but that’s a story for another time."]my permanent

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  note about course 12 is that it’s really good for a double major or a ... undergrad, even with COVID taking away field trips for over a year, I ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  over with, soak up the life lessons, and hope for a brighter future. At ... A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  organ![/caption] Step 11: Bring it up a whole 4 flight of stairs [caption ... Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics ... sad). Camera Sensors A photographic camera for everyone Admittedly, the ... -ion Batteries The right conditions for a wireless and fossil fuel-free society

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit ... an overzealous freshman, so I pitched a spread idea for Issue 7 last ... desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed ... whole process. i have a lot of hope for the fall. i feel like i’m in a ... ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... doesn't exist for a semester or seven and take it in your last term at MIT ... 's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... one) room. The camera once again pans around the room, revealing a bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  , so it's important for you all to take the time to find out what MIT can ... , CMS Jazz Combos, Emerson Program (which includes a scholarship for ... at MIT? For me, it has been maintaining a reasonable sleep schedule

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who ... for leaving so early, telling us that she went to a Harry Potter book

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  Orientation Trading Card Game was born! I had a LOT of ideas for how the game ... your understanding of the opponent, and visually has a lot of room for ... sell for thousands of dollars. A Grade-A example of thematic

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for ... have any advice for you. Rohan Malik asked: I'm Rohan Malik, a science ... Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect ... 's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  find for ourselves, a kind of an Aristotelian mean which we are always ... having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... first time in years where I had the time and energy for a project like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain actions into practice; e.g. writing down one thing you're grateful for each ... least some mechanism for doing this since there are a lot of amazing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  example for a lot of arguments either, but he's an engineer for NASA. He ... suit to be a superhero. No "baby I was born this way" origin story for ... , much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for ... " for "telescope") but I'll finish off with a discussion of light ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014