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• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  projects for a half hour or so. Then my teammate had class, leaving me alone ... -frosh for a club was warm and bittersweet. I hadn't been in that space since ... beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  walk out of the exam room and aimlessly wander around campus for a while ... : they will not.) iv. depression I submit a drop form for the class to my ... wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  most ⅓ of the retail price — i.e. if you pay $4 for a TGTG meal, the food ... for buying surplus food that’s been left out for a bit.  Yi Fang Fruit ... alternative is cooking for yourself! Cook whatever you want, [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  .086 Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers 2.086 is a class that focuses ... signed up for it. Apparently it was not. I have not turned in a single pset ... for graduating, and I don’t even necessarily need 6.101 for course 2A6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony ... Honorable Mentions: First off, Josepher presents an excellent example of a ... approvingly. On a less-traveled path of the prefrosh journey through CPW

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  hopefully this seminar will give me a good feel for whether this is something ... write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... 'd been debating about buying an iPod Shuffle for a while just so I'd have ... , given that there are 12 MITbloggers and assuming no leap years? Sorry for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  for at dim sum, but if you make a request, sometimes they'll serve it at ... Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master ... a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin ... not want to join fields that have a track record for sexual harassment ... Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a college application and you're waiting for a decision), I recommend you ... blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  Fitness I, a gym class (a story for another day...) By the time decisions ... patience, selflessness, discipline. And it’s okay to retreat for a day or two ... highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always ... a coveted internship, job, or career. There’s SpaceX, 3M, Capital One

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  into a desktop for her computer: Some of last year's entries: 1 2 3 4 5 ... A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... . Kent Riley, a research scientist at the Nuclear Reactor Lab working with Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), and obtained a UROP that combines

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a ... advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. They have a labyrinth there for no ... in high school, teenagers at a playground designed for 8-year-olds is ... in the front yard for hours at a time. But I got into MIT, so Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006