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  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  computer screen on a desk clicking buttons to do things. It's things like ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  doing a complete design overhaul to pull out together all the hacked ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ... assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on ... appointment with my therapist ended with the conclusion that i'm doing better

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny ... go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal, do things that make you happy and never look back. We understand that this may be a difficult

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... are you most likely to ask on a campus tour?  what do you mean ... “What do you wish you’d known as a first-year?” “What SAT score do you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  last month. here's an excerpt: How do you know if you have a moral ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  only swap two adjacent wires at a time. Let’s do another example. We ... there a way to do something similar in three dimensions? These are the ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  do   I've been creating a lot, recently away from the noise of ... 's not a slow, methodological process   against my will ... am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... .) Unless you are a total academic rockstar and/or you do not need sleep, you probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... .013: Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Lab. Instead of doing a ... majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... to do? A question my ex-boyfriend used to ask me back when he was having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  UROP lab for a few hours and then do some coding for 6.370, a java ... midshipmen with time commitments. While my Navy commitments do take a ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  costs a lot to hire the technicians who do this counting, meaning that ... : given a problem, what data do you need to solve it, and how do you construct that dataset? How do you account for—a big problem in ecology

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem ... do a better job of slowing down time than they did, and i fully intend ... arguments of the form you Should have a kid to do your part in continuing the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  ="89479" image5="89478" image6="89477" /] P.S.: Why do I look like I'm giving a ... This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  of a premed when you're doing X, but someone you know is (probably ... it turns out, I wasn't doing bad at all; I was on a good trend ... and research med schools." I feel a lot more ready for what I want to do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  first weekend in a while that I felt like I didn’t do anything. Friday ... ’m taking. And I think this is pretty clearly a sign that I’m doing a lot. I ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  do I send my high school transcript or updates? A: Your guidance ... edu. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your ... contacting my interviewer? A: You do not have to wait until the rest of your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap ... student had "tasted a whole worm" (wasted a whole term); our Lord was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... and a cupcake for doing my laundry rappelling cooking an edible meal ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022