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  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  other one lasts for weeks at a time, without reason or pattern behind ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... ! This class isn't for "dumb" students at all, it is quite literally a ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'"

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ...  Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... macroscopic form when at dynamic equilibrium. It's like a river: though the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’t make it better for you.  Often, I look at my past and know I’ve grown as ... plant vase before Dad left for the U.S. She asked what you felt. At the ... -one this month. I think it’s at least somewhat natural for me to have not

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  bigger and better than money. And so my purpose for being here at MIT was ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... attempt at problem set from this morning and feel very ashamed that Lauren

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the ... summer things. But now I stand at an awkward place where I don't really ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... Harley batting away at a roach, I cupped its remains and took it away as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the good old days. Even hustling for funds at 22 we wouldn’t be in the ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... up to see above crowds at concerts. Everyone laughed when I talked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  , either French or German, English, and History. Notable, for me, at least ... charts at the time, there's not a lot of room for choice in this matter ... . Westgate is also mentioned, and at the time I think it was intended for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... for each card. That means coordinating between 22 people, which wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012