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

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  recently switched from Google Play Music to Spofity because, although Google ... Procrastination by Addicted2Success. It's a web app, no need to download anything ... . It's a web app, no need to download anything. Also available as an app

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  eyes and let it move you. Then get to work . . . [Read more]" Acceptance ... These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... place to get some (training wheels) life experience and I'm grateful for

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Harvard-Yale football game to many more. (2) An inelegant shortcut to get ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very ... . Among other things, they're the people you call when you need to get that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... had even joined one. As he was initially getting to know different Kappa

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  requirements to get there. Maybe I have to take a few steps off of the beaten ... . Maybe we'll start getting some answers to all the questions we've been ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017