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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... software undistorted them, Isa's code found the centerlines of images, and ... the tech review deadline came, and staff from all parts of 2.009 came in

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

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

  

  my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... event of the year and always occurs in fall the weekend before classes

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... be "the duration of the war and six months thereafter". The war ended ... Puzzle Club, and I've never been the president for either of these. I didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  amount of joy and relief after the Obergefell decision in 2015. At the time ... remember that before the summer of 2017, I identified as straight, and ... swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... and I'm smiling the whole time. I talk about your depth, all the ways ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... classes, attend the first lectures, and choose which ones to drop. There isn ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still ... of the riverbed. You tell them it’s because of residual pollution and ... the end of term, and every posting space is filled with ads for various

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... the care of a psychiatrist. His health took a hit after that, and he ... conversation we had. U’s size, and lack thereof, was considered one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to ... time as a junior. senior fall: the power of intention and choice In my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... !" out loud, and one of the postdocs gives me a strange look. 10:15 AM. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of ... prepared, it gives great flavor and texture. Forget the issue of health, some ... % of my meals (the other 10% comes from eating out with friends), and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... friend who was running, and we went out in the dead of night to hang it in ... classes had projects (most of them group projects) due, and this was the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  first relationship because we were hundreds of miles apart, the steady ... all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the ... shameful, and the lack of proper emotional responses meant that it was hard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau ... summer residents at tEp. The first house dinner was an exciting blur of new ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on-the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of ... physical wellbeing. So I scrapped all of the memes and jokes I made about my ... transitional stage between high school and college, all while in the midst of a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even ... technical aspect of these structures, outside of pointing out the length and ... large, concrete towers and the rows of cables that fan out and cut the sky

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  also remind myself of my previous moments of uncertainty and on the whole ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , there’s an increase of typhus/typhoid infection due to the rain and river ... part of the well that will need the most maintenance and we sourced ... ). The depth of this well is also what makes the water clean, and prevents

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... the contributions of other fields and individuals, particularly those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  above) for the first time—super fun and tiring! There are a number of ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... , but then I’ll have a lot of work and not have time to do the creative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017