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• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  next on the list to try is digital art. We'll see how it turns out. Run ... if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It’s cliche, but it doesn’t really feel like it’s been 3.5 years since I entered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a ... together. And you don't know how to grind that off and re-do it, either ... . You don't know how to replace it. Needless to say I did all of these

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  't usually have to do this, but it does mean that sometimes I have to... 10 ... , do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before ... their plans over winter break. It turned out that almost all of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... day long, but I think it'd be best if you just watched the video. Yep ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in an MIT laboratory. Nobody knows how it was even physically ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... stuff that non-vegetarians might eat, then take the carcass, throw it into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  out of luck. Anyway. That's how fast all this bread went. But it's okay ... prefrosh I know getting waitlisted. Wow. What does it mean when you start ... It is 5:16am. At about 4:45, I walked into Senior House. I had been

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... , with a long flowing white beard), (2) mechanical engineering has replaced ... decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... intention was for it to be an accurate reflection of how I actually spend my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  picture (how your story shows something about who you are, and how it ... girls on the team. It wasn’t long before I was having an asthma attack. I ... .” It wasn’t long before I was a varsity starter. I might have waited my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... , it's time to say farewell to the class of 2009 and hello to the class ... , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  "]stifling[/annotation] long island household. the game's release is almost prophetically ... fiction. i currently have pink post-it notes stuck inside three books on my ... it's the same reason why it's been 168 days since i've last blogged

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  coolest lecture on mitosis I’d ever heard. How does the spindle apparatus ... read more about Prof. Kaiser's new appointment here. __ It’s true ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  I mean. And when it does (which can actually be more frequent than it ... speedy her face is a blur. It's certainly not because I have shaky hands ... 't tell is how satisfied I am with my tiny robot prize, mostly because

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  Midyear Report.   Got it. Ok, how do I fill this thing out? The ... how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... feels like coming home. And yet, it's Boston that I'll be leaving

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  how they have improved the lives of others in their community. And it’s ... dialogue about the process and how it is practiced. The real test will come ... it is a very strong report that will help prospective students and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  “that is valued as a physical object above and beyond its value as a ... compared to the $500 signed first edition. The 500-fold increase is worth it ... ,500+ Hemingway copy (one of 300 of a limited edition). Why, on the other hand, does

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  it boot up on the screen. i liked how tangible it felt. over winter ... were going on so many long drives over break that i thought it'd be good ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025