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  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... and hacking, in whatever capacity we could within the short time ... they build inside the dorm!). In a sea of mechanical, electrical, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  you alone. 3. Resist mentally. Picture yourself enveloped in a protective shield of white light, or in a safe place. Telepathic EBEs may get ... know what it's like. So while we live in demanding conditions, we do it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... things will be different in the future. What a lovely conclusion, right ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  feeling like their Spotify Wrapped didn't represent them in some way. The ... listened in 2019: 35,264 Artist of the Decade: Pearl Jam Comments from the ... Best new artist: lovelytheband Minutes listened in 2019: 33,405 Artist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  (Lunar New Year themed, in the McCormick Green Room!), but I felt like this ... through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of ... -up[/caption]When I walked in, instead of the flowers and greenery I was expecting, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for ... performances (people litter a lot in cities; MIT also seems to be littered with ... ever really escapes "technical difficulties", at any level (in my most

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Media Lab research areas; documenting research progress; ethical issues in ... required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media ... also counts for CI-H? This makes it the best class in the world by itself

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... harder and more important than they actually are. Believe in yourself, take ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... getting burned in pixels, leaving ghost images on my screen. This happens ... , like Best Buy, even give you your money back in store credit for a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  itself? To leave space in a schedule, to work out and think, to walk places ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just ... off in their head. I never thought I was done growing, but I think I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  and humanities magazine. Editor-in-Chief Michelle X. '20 presented the ... . After celebrating, we also planned for an upcoming fundraiser in Lobby 10 ... cookie-decorating event run by Women in Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... 's in New York City. We gotta go!" Later that night, one of our mutual ... who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... that there are two chem majors who live in your hall. One of them stays ... light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... hacking, the near-infinite research opportunities, MIT's mission in the ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists ... been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking busily, people running around in lab coats with clip boards, and caution

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks ... ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006