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• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... ideas we toss around the office, we first began talking about this basic idea in December 2013, right around the time Amazon announced Prime Air

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . The semester is really underway now, so that means tests and psets and ... . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... alone the summer. So it's not a definite, but it's something that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I ... have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all that). But it had finally reached the point where it was worth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... song is wild. High school never ends. I cannot tell the difference

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  your age group and the journey towards college. As you guys are among the smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... Admissions, but when was the last time I sat down and let myself draw or paint ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... sad? why is it that i don’t feel entitled to sorrow?   the first

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in polynomial time. the difference is that NP allows ‘lucky guessing.’ an open ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  cw: talking abt chronic pain   Everyone derides the EC basement gym, but I kinda like it. The paint is peeling off the walls. Thick dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers, and while I'm not the best writer, I've found that this formula works really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony. Clicking the Compose button links you to a page where you can record a piece using the piano keyboard. You can mess with the song’s key, time signature

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  [a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers' intro posts - don't worry, there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  -year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I was sitting at our dining room table, planning out my year. 2017 is the year that I ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... , dreams and struggles in the hopes that someone will benefit from my sharing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013