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• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  .... I wish I could be the perfect [beaver] But I come back to the water, no matter how hard I try Every [test] I take, every [pset] I [crack] Every [deadline] I make, [Mass Ave] leads back To the place I know, where

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look into my life, and how I feel. My hopes and dreams, and my tremendous ... and stress-reducing to sit down on the floor and put stickers on pages

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... reason to skip class. 13. Kazaa: how do people survive without it? (*NOTE ... sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... find an internship, a job or just find people to talk to about what you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... of it all. Aside from holding Mary Oliver close to the heart, how might ... maybe I have come to understand, to believe, how we witness makes our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... , I can relate less and less and then I know it's time for me to go. And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  of take some time to answer any random questions like “how often can you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... you guys for taking time out of your day to come here and read the blogs

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  than that. If anyone has anything to add, feel free to enlighten the rest of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what ... When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non-Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... learned from them and used them to confirm that I wasn't ready for graduate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  ."]executive board[/annotation] and how people choose to divvy up the work from year to ... moderated mailing list, for everything from clarifying COVID policies to ... them; if you're asking for something or have something to genuinely thank

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  dorm for more than a week before we began to notice that some crucial ... migrated from Bonfire to Pecker, where it remained for the rest of its days ... for unseemly gases to escape, ideally without them escaping into the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  proofs compared to how much they improved by the end. The experience for ... , I learned how to study for exams, I learned how to manage my time, and I learned how to reach out for help. Luckily, I had an amazing

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  , not only through what they literally write (i.e. "For fun I like to ... students to make something with it, for example. When we think about what types of essay questions we ask now, we try to optimize for those essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my ... knives. I listen for footsteps and try to make my own gait a little less ... for fifty dollars an hour. Four days a week I lift weights and listen to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  to think about it, after all—but it shapes how I've been planning for ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  that more people have access to it? How can we ensure that it will still ... -school aged students from around the world converged at Labo for a week to ... -science space in Paris. I helped to curate an upcoming art exhibition

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How ... that makes it really easy (and affordable) to hit the mountain for a day ... , these are the prices to pay for entertainment. So here I am, with a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010