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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  public service program. I failed, and almost decided to give up. My ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... -important fail-if-you-miss-it concert band rehearsal that night. Luckily, her dad ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  -year class). I was initially tempted to submit a blank sheet of printer paper ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  -like qualities”. While a spork fails to be both a fork (the tines are too short) or ... apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... , he rubbed his sleepy eyes and began to stand up. "Where's your concert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  smiles and hugs never fail to cheer us up after a long day at school. The ... trying to debate about housing or even recommend to you what you should do. I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  didn’t think I would be able to meet the initial deadline we had set. I ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  had begun forming, thanks to a failed New Year resolution—and worked his ... I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  maybe, for those reasons, I am more likely to fail. Joe was the perfect ... Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship ... phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are eye ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  [annotation note="I have failed as a 5 foot tall person"]low enough to the ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  pursued their dreams and failed? Wouldn’t it be selfish of me to give up the ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  applicants who fail to demonstrate any sort of command of the English language ... the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  to step up and become the floor's new Apple Bake Chair (TM). No other ... competition, assuming that we'll end up winning at least as much as our initial investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  cycle repeats. And that’s not sustainable. I think what I’m failing to ... orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022