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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... thoughts of grief. It was hard to not feel bittersweet about reaching the ... expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... ’t say that participation will smooth the path for admission, but any of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... 's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... from the end of IAP:

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the ... ; hated the idea of being the only anthropology major in my year; pined

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with ... the single most important part of your application.While you do not need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... are unfortunately not placed on the same tier of importance, even though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  frequent flyer miles like nobody's business. Those are probably some of the ... stings, when I'm feeling sad, Arial (the font), the spelling of the word ... : The odds of achieving this are a little greater when you attend MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... . I met Chambers. You might've heard of him. He's that guy from the Duolingo thing. He challenged me to a game of chess. Aidan Chambers, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... named him one of the 100 most influential people of our time. That

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  's a half-solar double that faces the river and has two walls of continuous windows (yay Next House! All the rooms on the 2nd floor have tons of ... . Good thing I saw straight through him. One of the views: My litter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over-thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get ... mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  pics for proof At the end of her show (which was great, as expected), she came down in the audience and made fun of people for about twenty minutes. Probably the best part of the show.     (@leslie if

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... during this time (2) I will not be blogging about any of the work I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Spring Semester of 2013. (See the Academic Calendar.) This deadline is ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... many of your questions can be found on the Transfer Admissions section of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012