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• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  apron and ruminated. Hair salons in particular are very good for this type ... long I had been dying my hair, and I faltered for a moment, realizing ... of care for my hair was pretty ironic, since my hair is incredibly

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... differently for me on the train ride back, it struck me that not getting into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... nothing. i'm going to avoid taking any hard classes, for real. i won't take long-term commitments for clubs and stuff. and i'm not going to say, oh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when ... this post']writing essays,[/annotation] this is the distraction post for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I ... 't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens before I reached twelve, and Elaine St ... disdain for books that seemed--like diet pills or clickbait listicles--to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... ’ve been spending my summer writing essay after essay for twenty ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the ... a metaphor for perseverance, academic ambition, or high SAT scores ... set for 8.07 sublimated by Maxwell Stress Tensor puns (I was tired that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  of precession and calculate capacitance for fun, squashing the less ... * There, all clean now, except for that little bit of bitterness that soaked ... greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... ) bunk room for about 5 hours. I got a lot of HASS reading done. =) Then, I found out that I got a new job! Ready for it? You sure? It's nerdy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  ="114813" /] subscriptions blue bikes singlehandedly responsible for me meeting my "get off campus" goal uber one for the five month free trial and uber

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there ... play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  recommend applying for next year if/when they run the program again) and about the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... semester I took five classes, which was a first for me. 6

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021