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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... University of Texas at Arlington, Pelkins transferred to MIT his sophomore year ... . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . Scrape off excess clay at the foot of your pot; use a needle or wire tool ... how big you can make your vessels. At the end of week 1, I ended up with ... . At the end of week 2, I had kept the following two bowls: [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our ... job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... semester, which means another dramatic housing lottery at Zeta Psi. Every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  that 2014 should open up with some sort of bang—performers at Times ... and not at all self-conscious ideas fell apart at the feet of the ... , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  school covered both of them at our first (only) Christmas concert way back ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do ... If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  read through at least 3,000 pages of material this break. if you think ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... of physics is trying to figure out which angle is which? I mean, you ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be ... layout and graphic design of the zine. But at this point, the spring ... stillness of my apartment at the end of the night).          The best and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... , let’s say College N. At CPW, I struggled to decide which of the many ... Professor Talent Show, but that would mean missing a game of mafia at Burton

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going to blog about them all at once RIGHT NOW instead of putting them off ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at ... want to be a part of Residence Based Advising, at which point you must

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my ... practices, of our trip to the local competition, at the attempt towards an ... the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  choose to find the time, even if it’s at midnight. Some of them are long ... of the jokes really didn’t land. But I laughed at them anyway, because ... this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... " clause at the end of the email! recipient name redacted bc I luv 2 ... general... like many writers I am of the opinion that I suck at this"]how to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019