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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... watched a man with headphones sleep while I thought about what I was going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... 't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have ... morning when I first wake up, I reached blindly for my iPod so I could check

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  ” with a top university scholar situated at every gate. Only 10-20% of ... Taxila despite the 10-20% acceptance rate. You have come prepared for any question. Never mind that your family cannot afford to pay for your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  , some for different subgroups, one for random or fun things that happen ... series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  I was walking down Mass Ave yesterday under an umbrella with a friend ... when walking home, feeling happy and full with a sunset hot at our backs ... 't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  necessary part of growth. For me, coming to terms with the fact that most of ... overcompensate with a sort of dramatic over-enthusiasm for everything, directing my ... word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Saba and Qing for sharing with me and MIT admissions blog readers their ... for your 2012 summer. Next post: my summer fun! Love Linh ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... , plugged in values, and spat out an answer. But not you. With you, a 15-word ... sign might take 10 minutes to figure out. I might be using the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ... with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  with the icebreaker: "Would you rather have feet for hands or hands for ... really be in our romanticism era. One month later, with an Airbnb booked, tickets for the commuter rail bought, and our laptops ready for blogging, we

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to ... you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  consisted entirely of nerdy pick-up lines, beginning with that one. (“Vote for ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone ... embellished garments and an umbrella that shrinks on command for space

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  starting from the last time I blogged, I think I'll start with where I am ... my first Course 20-specific class until sophomore spring with ... that felt has difficult for me at MIT before is that I'm not very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that exceeds, say ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  missing and two others are in critical condition with extensive circuitry ... grade too steep for its small hinged legs, causing six of its pneumatic ... then swim across the Charles River with a burning candle stuck in its

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three ... with DKE! Conveniently, DKE and PBE's buildings are actually physically

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with ... "wow, I've only been doing this for 3 weeks and I'm almost done with my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006