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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for Switzerland in less than 2 months, so you just freak out, but ... Course 2, and you are reminded that you're dealing with the Swiss, and ... former Course 2 ETH exchange alum, MIT '16, who reaches out after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  many I could handle. I subtracted 1 a week later to snooze. 2 remained ... out. 2 hours for 4 showers. 5 hours for river walks. Approximately 16

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk ... graduation/prom may be coming soon....) 14. Go to a Firehose session! Or 2, or

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation ... stop (along with everyone else’s, I’m sure) for just a second. After 2

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  input. 2. Sleep is underrated, and pulling all-nighters is overrated. I ... 2am and 6am? Probably a bad one. Hold off on executing it until the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  dinner yesterday because I overslept. Ex. 2: According to Facebook, you and ... ! Ex. 2: MIT's Stata Center is non-Gaussian. Isotropic (adj

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  ’t more popular (maybe because not enough people have seen Avenue Q.) 2 ... me cry. That’s the reality. When it’s 2 am on a Thursday night and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Lafayette, IN) MIT major: 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... ) MIT major: 2A-6 (Mechanical Engineering: Control, Instrumentation and ... used Concept2 Ergs called RowHouse back in my home town of Denver

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  swing. [carousel image1="79528" image2="79494" image3="79492" image4 ... image1="79549" image2="79550" image3="79589" image4="79590" /] The ... Achievement Tests in: 1. Level I or Level II Mathematics, 2. Physics or

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  order to make sure I would commit to the humanities in some way. > 2A ... and prototyping, but in a BME context, so I opted for 2A-20 instead. > 2A-product design / 21m minor I did the Discover Product Design FPOP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... Contents 1. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) 2. MIT: The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  tastes like chicken, sourced from EC courtyard (jk). Fig. 2. Left ... plastic wrap, refrigerate overnight. Day 2 Cooking the roll: Sous ... Omelet (See Fig. 2) Mix 2tbsp (35g) potato starch, 1 tbsp (10g

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  experiences, and (2) we’re susceptible to fucking up, too. Collect advice, but ... as the semesters pass. Try not to end up with many more than 1 or 2 if ... , etc. Dominos delivers until 2AM. Learn how to cook. Cooking isn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... % of undergrads graduate within four years[1], 93% within six[2]. That ... averages for all four-year postsecondary insitutions (of 39% and 59.2

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  the world record for deportations in this country—over 2 million, just ... incarcerations, over 2 million also. And that’s a black and Latino issue ... - Trailer - 2-2014 from 50EGGS on Vimeo.

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of ... , and enjoyed building things. 2. I was not very good at building things ... alum who now works for Google on Project Ara (a modular cell phone), (2

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman ... , Year 2: You Can Always Learn and Improve This is a tricky lesson to ... read Mindset by Carol Dweck (nearly 2 years after I was originally

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  ) Link: hmc.edu/admission/fast/how-to-apply/  Usually Takes Place: (2 ... : Scholarship that only requires students to make a 2-minute video talking about ... , annual $1000 stipend, and 2 six-week summer prep programs. Free

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  kind works best for me. 9 am classes? Maybe not (see point 2 above). But ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  Believed That I Was Not Good Enough. Didn’t finish that video lecture in 2x ... forgets it. That is why it lasts forever. - Tao Te Ching, 2

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018