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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ="Freshman year was Madrid, sophomore year was Tokyo"]the United States ... Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry ... and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT, ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15 ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major, and it achieves this by cutting requirements from both the Humanities field and the Engineering field you chose, making it really flexible. Our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here's the story. Well, actually, here's the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic strip. The main character's daughter

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• 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…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend, I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014