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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... know it (really.) Anyways, all this reminded me of all you Early Action

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don ... many times that there are, like, 4 different drafts of it sitting in Word

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other institutions, so this might be much easier for me than those at other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  at the "Mephistophelean Institute of Turpitude." We were given a ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... , thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... ’t just want to assemble one-thousand pieces to see some cartoon image of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  General Institute Requirement (graduation requirement), and also one of my ... ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  charged to your semester meal plan. We offer a variety of cuisines (even ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... other hand, you're given an enormous amount of variety to select your ... course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston ... of a show called "Design Squad." One of Design Squad's major sponsors ... ideas with high-end technologies, such as graphic design animation

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  privileged and predominantly-white undergraduate institution, many of my peers ... institutions, while also answering questions you may have about the college ... a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019