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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  internship, so I’m starting to figure out what types of companies, working ... the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... -checking?)[annotation note="to be fair, the exact wording could differ between translations

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I’m from Oregon,” I said, which was my usual response to this question. “No

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The ... to keep out the wind and rain but be permeable to radio waves. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific ... . Basically, it’s training to become an officer in the U.S. Military. ROTC gives

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  was tested, scrutinized, and pushed to its limits and after many ... heavy or dirty it seemed, and we began the long drive to Hastings ... , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... them to not be conducive to learning. In order to help teachers, we need

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass ... to any other colleges, probably because I hadn't applied to any other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole years ago, but it's super awesome and while it's hard to exactly explain ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while ... was trying to spoon-feed myself solid food again. Now that I've moved

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... awesome that MIT allows you to do whatever you like to your room. I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006