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  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time! Sleep Deprivation Time! I'm using so many exclamation points because I'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals can also drive you cRaZy.…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don’t mean “oh snap it is going to take me…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  On November 22, 1995, the first Toy Story was released, becoming the world’s first fully computer-generated full-length feature film (source). This year, fans all over the world celebrated the movie’s 20th Anniversary.…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked with Holly, who works on our communications team, about applicatons, art, and action team. As I said…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good. My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying relatively stable at something…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro… Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Simsbury, Connecticut, the final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from Los Angeles, and…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I’m on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life–SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the first two weeks of November, and then last week…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015, Veteran’s Day and the last day…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary education through OpenCourseWare. Then came edX, a massive online…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week.…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  November 20, 2013. Precisely 23 days until my first application decision. 22 days after the first application submission. 40 days until the next application deadline. 2 years ago. Back then,…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of my scattered…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Located…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in addition to books like 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, which I would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015