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  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  office. Mostly, we're catching up on work, answering individual questions from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... schematic and prototype A schematic is a drawing of your electrical components

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... . These past few weeks, I’ve made these small discoveries and others on my own. But now that the other ‘13s (plus Celena!) and I are on the blogs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... into this one. *** Throughout middle school and high school, one of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  whatva I do what I want" and flew home to surprise him. I have tons o ... Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  possible. I would perform on top of the coffee table, singing loudly and ... experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... understand you on such a deep, fundamental level, and then... Poof. Four years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  dedicated to the novel, viciously and hungrily reading any bit of well-written of fanfiction I could find on AO3, and even cracking open my old Tumblr ... presentation on a fan experience of mine and I was able to reflect on my time as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  plenty of space on the harddrive. So any old green computer couldn ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  I expected: I’m still focusing on physics, CS, and earth science ... , or any of the problems of [annotation note="the possible exception ... -term: it lies perfectly at the intersection of weather/climate and computer

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  making any of that happen because it was something that future me would ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... idea any of these existed last year.   Within the past year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  any fire alarms (I heard that last semester, on the first day of 3 ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... freak out about how much you don't understand what's going on. (And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  specialty is quality assurance. "They won't let interns touch any of the ... was in the Mathcounts program and on the school math team, and he has ... of Phillip and Gina Smith. His father is an electrical engineer at BAE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets ... '07 (note the blue shirt) insisted on stopping at Dunkin Donuts and ... of MIT's Cross Country team, so he can afford the calories, and he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  to a lot of running around campus and scrambling to turn in psets on ... that wasn't "lie on my couch and admire my collection of free American ... 's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  high school has never hesitated to call me out on my bullshit, and I ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a ... witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  have any chance of focusing on Genetics. I gathered all my materials and ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... do both AND watch an episode of “Glee” just blows my mind. Did I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... being on my own two feet. Having my own place and car. My schedule is ... -perception I feel old. I always have, but I thought my perception of age and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  my life and the world around me. Are there are any patterns I'd like to ... extracting the relevant subset of the data, organizing it, and changing how it ... locations where each player (in a virtual game of hide and seek) chose to hide

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  computer science grad student, and I had the privilege of singing with her in ... . But you can meet the rest of us any time next year after you COME TO MIT ... on down to the esplanade and take a few minutes to run 3 miles with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006