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  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For ... So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... linguistics for an entire year, and I loved it, but by the end I felt like I was ... year, I worked for other people's spreads, but this year I am blessed to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... towards MIT, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise ... refusing to get up" "failing to attempt is the biggest failure of life ... morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  fresh ozone, rip the bond in half to make two new double bonds, stick an ... looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago ... for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We ... .  To my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, thank you for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by ... It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  work in robotics! The labs are pretty neat, since we get to build things ... can power a LED that requires 3.5V for it to operate. Pretty cool ... Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  supported MIT Natya by coming to Laasya but also desperately wanted to be ... Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... house teams put up snacks in dorm lounges for people to take. friends bake ... do want to try to cultivate this feeling. not for the sake of being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... -sounding piano ballad, but the distortion was too great for me to figure out which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were ... hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... given information i never had access to. it took a while for me to realize ... about for now  people are often skeptical when i mention this to them

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i ... snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  the weather finally getting better, I rallied my hall for a picnic ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that ... really embody the word maximum, made it difficult for us to go through with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018