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  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual hands for a research job.…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I’m sitting in a cozy joint titled “Tasty Burger” with Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor. (They’re cool.) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to act like you’re in elementary school again. You wanna become Doctor Who? Go ahead. You wanna go…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live 3. learned about cornhole 4. went…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Here’s the thing about me: I’m naturally an introvert. Talking to people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree,…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  “Okay, everybody! Shut up!” Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  booked a hotel room. A $55K per year hotel room.  Of course, sometimes you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City depending on traffic and wait time…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  : Inventing Abstraction. My friend Priya K. '16 and I over-dissected the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for 7.06, cell biology with Professor Iain Cheeseman. We were learning about how proteins made in the…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book on the floor I…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  Life, a.k.a. jobs. The student exhibitors had a few...novelty methods

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI, participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  6.270 - Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6.370 - Battlecode, a.k

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  : intel i5 2500K (OC'd to 3.8Ghz) CPU COOLER: Hyper212+ MOBO: GA-Z68X-UD3H

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on four different outfits before deciding which combination of shorts and baggy t-shirt to p-set…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  aboard. Lydia K. made the transition from Pennsylvania to Random Hall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : UROPs - The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program a.k.a. what

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011