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• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  to be doing a lot of commuting. That's right: Hack, Punt, Tool was ... ?" followed shortly by "Wait...we could actually do this." These words are exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  have a preference for folks who do have active blogs. 

If you do ... writings/videos. 

If you do have a current blog, please send a link to ... Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  really want to do. Interesting walls do not make a person, and the money ... to do. I hope you all have a relaxing break, and a great start to your ... I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  i really love the work that i'm doing - game design for a game that i ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  would easily drop whatever they're doing to help a friend in need, and ... MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... ? Also, I dream of doing either a double major in EAPS ... out. Do a lot of people come in undecided, and are there any sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... might get sick during finals week. You might have a midterm and 3 psets ... over. What you do have control over is your attitude. Attitude is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  a little crazy. If you have already contacted your EC but haven't yet heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to ... can either give us a call at 617.253.4791 or drop us an email at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  ." Indeed, we spend the first class day doing just that. :) I've kept a ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  will probably do a few later posts about the details of things like ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  , giving me a hug and leaving to go do whatever small, red block he’s got ... get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... , academic workload, a lot of people really do like their classes. For me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay ... wrote: "How do you guys decide if someone gets admitted? Are there a bunch ... . :-) ------------------------------------- Olga wrote: "Do you need to send a mid-year grade report for EA? I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  , only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit ... heard “You suck!” And a male friend of mine said later, “It’s ok. They do ... This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  conditioning? what a crime. so i do a little travelling about the campus and do ... . Now that I'm a senior, I can do the same for the young'ns. Living with a ... room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had ... youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  online. We do not always read applications with a web connection nearby ... because I didn't think of it, but was assigned to a research doing it, can I ... a third SAT II. You do not need to take an "emergency" SAT II. 2. Use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  ="82508" /] 7. Being whimsical Scheduling and then doing a specific fun activity is great, but it also feels amazing to be able to do something on a ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008