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• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  them, discuss with them how to get girls interested in science, outline ... he met with politicians and journalists to discuss how the US and the ... From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... learn how to also beep boop. Regardless, I suffered through 6.145, with a ... regular normal people are supposed to know how to use things. And that's why

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  , and you have to teach yourself how to depend on other people or manage ... more attention to how it felt and tasted in my mouth than its appearance ... their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how ... helpful. It doesn't let me wiggle out of things, or lie to myself about how ... shut up to my walking partner(s) about how beautiful it is Put on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal ... ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and ... consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then ... . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2 ... recitation. For the week I’ve decided to share, we were using angular momentum

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... other days, except my boyfriend flew up from Georgia to see me. Later, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  's important to know how MIT helps its students once they're here. I hope you ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  suggestions as to the application process? How was it when you applied? How is ... going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  ”, given how long/difficult that it was, and also a time to hang out with my ... just can't figure out how to fix it for you ... logistics, and figuring out how to help our group sound better. I was lucky

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  how hard I tried to deny it, but there was a larger part of me that ... and over. I hate how sometimes my Lola gets frustrated when she has to repeat herself. I hate how he has to apologize for not remembering only to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... DiMartino] and the other artists on Avatar where I learned how to storyboard, how to use the skills that I learned, and just made sense of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  how you respond to Lumia when she asks you about how you're feeling. The ... they need to keep building their relationship with them? It's funny how ... first → "Oof, I don't think I can come" → Do some TA work Go to sleep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of high school. Suffice to say, punctuality has never been my strong suit

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... ' birth years. I slowly learned more about how puzzles work and how to solve ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... ’s super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five ... ’m willing to admit, I decided to start learning how to design my own origami

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023