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  [LIVEBLOG] 2 Girl 1 HackMIT this joke would work better if we had three people on our team

  

  convinced [annotation note="she's a cs and math major at the University of ... collie ran and played all day, but the pug just laid around. At the end of ... first day of HackMIT! What is HackMIT? Well I'm so glad you asked! Hack

  • by Leya E. '30
  • September 19, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are ... , to feel several different kinds of grief all at once, to pay even 10 ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  at a distance. Here’s a short (and apologetically low quality) video of ... is at a final presentation and tech fair type of event:   But ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  called my parents, who are looking at houses. lots of moving parts ... quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... ?) Besides the plenitude of classrooms, some of Building 4's most enjoyable ... for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense ... feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  determines the height at which the middle of each image should be hung. With ... the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... part of this organization since 2004, and this was my 4th visit to Uganda

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  touch with some of my friends who I met at the other Cambridge 🇬🇧 ... ! A couple of months ago, I got married to my best friend- who I met at ... In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... .112. Principles of Chemical Science, 18.022. Calculus, and 18.100B Real Analysis ... intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  permutation thereof, or anything at all, please comment below! I read all of ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy social life spirals out of control, and your self-confidence drops faster

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  Sugar Land (my city) that I can spend my last week of IAP at home ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011