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  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans to shield ourselves from the heat. Anyways, we also learned how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  over at the house to attempt to true my wheel (spoiler alert: I failed ... cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  tried Mystery Hunt for the first time, but epically failed to help the ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  give it out. Not true at all! But you do need to take the initiative here ... of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher ... to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... , enthusiasm is good," said Aaron. "But you need to find internal enthusiasm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  build apps with them." Confusion persisted. "I fail to understand your ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  me actually fail"]but there's not way I failed.[/annotation] I went to ... transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  for someone to try and fail there. they believe this reasoning applies ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Resourcefulness Initiative Amen. To all of those. And then I won a Ratheon mug and ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  emotionally over with, so I'm not as scared to fail again. I know it's good to ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... -bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018