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  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from ... snowflakes on this old website, and here's some that I like: 3660570 ... 's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  diseases. The gallery on the first floor of this brand new center is ... it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  on the calf, because every thirty minutes a new part of muscle you ... -to-chip cooling, which pipes liquid to plates on different parts of the server ... plan, which was focused on liquid cooling, which was new but had a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  the grid point on the map and plan the best way to attack. You brief ... the end of the mission, we talk about what was good, and what we should ... learning how to jump out of airplanes, the Army way. That means you go out

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  D student on a pre-existing project, and we have a pretty good sense of the ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... like I always do, on my way from something or other to something else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  day. Driving, on the other hand, can be extremely trying. Lots of one-way ... parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... Saturday morning, a panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

   doing instead of living." I felt like the best way to approach life was to fill it ... new things, but none of these holds more meaning than happiness. And why ... school; that there is so much left to sneak up on me, to change the way I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... José '10 and Nick '10's Very Special Episode™ of their show on MIT Cable ... lot of fun(http://www.mfa.org/calendar/index.asp?keywords=sleepwalking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  . People already on the Infinite have the right-of-way, so you must imagine ... surplus of amateurs on the road. People, really - it's not that hard. Read ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working ... good number of people bought some (and were subsequently mauled by herds ... all the good fortune we could get, our huge line of shouting foreigners

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I ... handout. Then the professor writes on the blackboard during class, none of ... for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... scary, but with the help of [annotation note="the most effective way to ... rules, but most of the focus was on creating your own work and critiquing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus ... function of having grown up in NYC. Although I haven't gone on a run in a ... ="64402" /] flour bakery One of the perks of living in New Vassar is its location

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  hours on websites that take you as a spreadsheet of numbers whereas ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... than I did now that I can look back on and think about the different ways

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... appreciated. a few days later, a new book of poems made it onto my bookshelf

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  good thing. How else would I have learned about bioengineering? Fast ... of the cell influence behavior. Biomechanics on different length scales ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan ... 's website: "Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held ... New York Times as 'one of the most prodigious collectors of wine, art

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now ... carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery ... whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013