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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . The barista is a young woman wearing an apron, her long, blonde hair in ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  and there is a document in your queue that you didn’t put there. You print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red ... sun starts rising and stops again. There is a sketchy f---er in the EC

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  interested in for a while (Reinforcement Learning), and the professor is also ... fun labs.  In non-pandemic years, there is also a camping trip!! The ... listing 205 classes and why they loved that specific class. Here is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  year in next week's Tech issue, which I also think is a really good read ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I ... in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  handy-dandy 9-page document.  Realise that an internship is not a ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... exchangers in a group chat who are also going through the same struggles and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  the actual country-continent relationship, there is a ton of overlap in ... last EESA event of the semester. It's ironic, and in a way proves ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , here it is in all its glory – a pen plotter, drawing machine, robot ... stroke path is, like, a whole other project in and of itself. All things ... is what makes me feel connected to myself, others, and the world in a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not ... the smartest person in the room is, or the zoom chat or whatever, I tell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  actually see all the many branches in high school. Math is a human and even ... definition described in Cromwell’s Polyhedra. A polyhedron is the union of a ... of the parallel result in two dimensions: the volume of a triangle is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... already have a blog, to prove that you are able to churn out pieces of writing well and consistently - so I started a blog sometime in June. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... the day—[annotation note='I have... many thoughts on being a “woman in ... , this blog is mostly about a really cool lounge, though I thought it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  credentials and supporting documents from which a composite is formed that ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012