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• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... get to choose whether or not they’re going to be the person they are, or ... ’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  make every effort to include as many students as possible. 3. How does ... Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing ... as scholarship opportunities to take private lessons in voice or an

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... . He teaches these classes. I may be able to one day learn how to write fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... three weeks of my LIFE. Okay, so, I'm not going to talk about the fact ... raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  pack. They don’t know how to push themselves to the point of discomfort ... brag about how they never have to study or go to recitations or lectures ... not getting where you wanted to go, because you were too afraid to ask

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... 'm partial to Shadow Shoppe. That's not an inclusive list, of course. MIT is

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... register at Harvard ⛔ To be honest, not having done this one is probably one ... semester that I will cross-register during the next one, just to not actually

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  ="five foot tall people are simply not able to have clothes that just fit ... . Next came the weird business of figuring out how many stamps to put on ... post office. But I'm not going to let that stop me. (And neither should

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... , I'm not one to turn down free stuff. So, it was a no-brainer -- I ... idea how to make one. Finally, I got the [annotation note="more to come

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his ... real-time how we measure up to others. This is a bad idea, regardless of ... told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren ... , but luckily some of the core skills of the GEL program taught me how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... something about how they care (it's cool to care!) about the work they ... pebbles off a beach. they can do that because MIT teaches you how to learn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  engineer sitting to the other side. You can ask him how he’s freeze drying ... , I realized that not only had I started to pick up on some of the ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  already off to a rough start. (Although I guess spring break had not ... I was not mentally/physically prepared to venture off campus quite yet ... , so I went to Cafe Luna – a popular brunch spot also not far from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. I spent a few hours ... godsend. Now, I’m going to do my best to not sound like I’m being paid by ... downloaded the app, trying to figure out how the software worked and different

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  together." Prof. Jenkins talks about how he used to be the Green Lantern when ... explains he's going to be talking about other people, not just him, "so it ... As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  choice illustrations from this site about how not to use Tim the Beaver ... page or anything, at least, not publicly. Harvard still sticks to the ... even that, Caltech seemed to use its seal with the torch in it. No, not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , trying, not to complain, but to explain, to understand why I let things get ... want to insert into that sentence. I regret not staying on top of the ... ahead of time. I regret not sleeping enough to the point where playing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014