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  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  ’m grateful for the opportunity we had to learn some new skills and experience ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... to confidently announce to the entire class that the new girl ‘talks funny.’ Thanks for that, Jennifer. At least I didn’t have to switch

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  The Gray House, where MIT’s president lives. what other dorm gets to see ...    The MORAL OF THE STORY is, check out our CPW events! Stop by if for no ... What up, y'all? I don't go to MIT anymore! ...okay, so I work here

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  : you guys are amazing. Every year when the call for new bloggers goes out ... and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... front-runner for his major. He's excited to find a UROP, join Assassin

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  worrying for my future... will I get into a good school? Can I get a job? Can ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  .  I tried to get help. It took 6 weeks for me just to see a ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I ... -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  for each side, and he said "yes, that's true" to both of them. He ... , and was just presenting it to Dumbledore for approval. "Write that," he ... As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... states, which have not historically been as well-served by computer science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama ... stage. So what principles did the Dalai Lama posit to anchor this new

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... engaging. Bonus: class participation involves a daytrip to New York City ... , I'm trying to tighten my culinary grasp in order to make new and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  ’t actually have to completely define us if we would only let go of them for a ... (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and ... My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes, it would be okay for you to submit your alternate response as an ... consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents ... to this, electronic test score records are sent to us by the testing ... is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for ... California, Downstate New York, and Toronto, though, for reasons I'll talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... on top of the Great Dome 13. Contribute to How to Get Around MIT 14

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... bought by saving for half the cost and having her parents chip in the rest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006