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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally, in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... completely optional, yet, if you find the right one to attend, you will get the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the Legislature and several meetings have prevented my writing within the past week

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... case. That morning, I woke up to the hotel room phone ringing. Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing ... ). Invariably, the answer has always been "dive in somewhere and it'll work itself ... nigh un-un-packable. So here's my shot at giving you the blog equivalent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the ... -haired megastar appearing at the MIT museum yesterday with almost as much advance ... culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  essentially the lovechild of an etch-a-sketch and a drill press. Using two dials ... drill press). The main difference is that you can move the part around while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... . I still have that same feeling many mornings when the alarm goes off. Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... the night away after eating delicious food, dessert, and coffee. Each ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from Boston. See, I'm from Salem OR, where the most exciting thing that ... many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  some point!), so I'll kill a little time by answering them. What's the picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... ... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  the border, stayed at an AirBnB, and spent the weekend doing very ... that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of ... , the market was also cash-only, and we had not brought enough [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the summer. I even stuck a note on the door for myself and my roommate (who

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in ... who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016