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  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  As I mentioned here, I'm taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action ... breaks, DON'T TAKE THE BUS! Oh, and if you do, make sure you have a potato ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... receives the benefits of doing so") like acid rain, global warming, smoking ... a week current material: So far, we've discussed early parks, focusing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great ... work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  your student does not have a cell phone, but you do, you may want to ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life

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

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  but it's a really simple thing to remember how to do and do quickly ... at a local college. Do these credits transfer over to MIT next fall or ... you to do a pset in a class that's easy for you, like 8.02, vs. a class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  PREMISES 1. This is an OPINION post. Not a suggestion post. I'm not trying to debate about housing or even recommend to you what you should do ... plus fraternities at MIT do not all have the same personality, so it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  of experience you do or don't have, but not having experience isn't a ... Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  SO SO SO MUCH. WHY….. why am I still doing this? I think a younger me ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... . However, as I did so, something feltoff. I was overcome with a profound

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  doing way too many activities, I’m the professor who sees a student’s eyes ... ’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  never be able to do; the excitement of having a friend to go with who can ... been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  take us a few days to do this). That interviewer may be willing to do the ... high. (Last week, we were getting over a hundred emails a day…) While you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  its purpose and they know what to do. A few rehearsals later, and it ... . Everyone’s doing what they’re supposed to. Suddenly, a whistle ... Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... all the nifty things they can do, and hackers – MITs clandestine purveyors of engineering spectacle–are no exception. This year, there were a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm ... to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school, so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023