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• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... figure out how to think about feelings and communication more clearly, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this ... distance of the bridge so they’d know exactly “how long it would take to get ... somehow adds to the thrill. I get to talk to the members about their time

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human ... scale for all four samples. These values correspond to roughly 20 HV – an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... difference. And that is how I can tell my reality from my trauma. And for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  the ConsenSys talk, learning how to integrate a software called MetaMask ... roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. I've been blogging about Hack ... were pretty creative. For example, Nasdaq wanted students to hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  already going to be a struggle in coach. We will see how it goes. For now ... 3rd, 2023 location: South Station, Boston, MA currently listening to ... . We will have to see exactly how it goes, but I suspect that this trip

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office. Today, [annotation note="If you were on campus for an information session this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... planner for the Wyoming stop, I was excited to bring the college fair ... to present, to even renting cars and purchasing plane tickets—we had so

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... -grilled hotdogs, and cold Capri-Sun, where we'd wait for the family next door to ... . “Oh no! How dare they ask a simple get-to-know-you question instead of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... school teacher, encourage you, a cool reader of the MIT blogs, to go for it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that ... standards for Campus Preview Weekend, set to be unveiled in April 2018. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as ... trying to figure out what to do with myself for the upcoming semester and ... delving into Marvel! When I returned home for the summer, I planned out how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to ... took for me to punch it into place felt like several minutes. Feel bad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  to raise awareness about and facilitate opportunities for discovery of ... Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small ... select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to ... incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this ... in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... looking for something harder. This was dumb. I decided I wanted to run an ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... the rankings for the most minutes spent listening to a single artist ... 's lists. Shout out to Kano for spending almost 20 hours one day listening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  headway to get ready for the 2023s who were entering that fall, the only ... -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates. for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to ... to teach me how to use a sewing machine. As practice, I made this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022