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• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully ... Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... stories tall - I'm never really sure because, as you can see, the first ... many times as you can in four hours (bananas and Gatorade provided at the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in ... Jobs was one of the most influential people in my life. Not because I ... were a fish, he'd have provided much of the water in which I swim. When

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Münchner, and I immediately thought of this title. The first thing we did in ... bloody severed mannequin hands. I can't think of any way that you could ... joke. Of course, I was pretty tired, because earlier in the day we had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... . In the beginning of the month, I was struggling to figure out how to ... ^12 cookies in one day, I hosted a Cutthroat Kitchen contest with some of my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  some sneak previews of some episodes (I’m an insider!) and I can vouch ... , filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of ChemLab Boot

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... this was just about two years ago, but yeah, apparently I can say that now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  concerns, at least as I saw them back in the spring of 1996: Will I have a ... good fit for me..it has a lot of opportunities that I very much wanted in ... In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... a number of other events that despite not having a fireworks display

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... waiting tentacles of a flesh-eating eel). In the interest of survival, I ... clogged in my throat like a soup of strong medicine and butterflies, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time ... I'm finally all settled into my summer experience in ~~the bay~~ My 6 ... and I, we've really gotten to know each other. In between splitting and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours ... ; House Another one of my favorites; I can't imagine cutting this one. I ... 's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  . However, out of all the development I've ever done for a company (in my very ... libraries. I think most of us are fine with the first two, but in terms of the ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... . (By the way, as you can tell from the number in the photo above, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this spring. This blog post is part of my research proposal. I have ... , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  the basement I spend a decent amount of time in the basement, because ... It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Massachusetts to Malaysia and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome ... in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023