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  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... breathes... (Photos by Greg Steinbrecher) Needless to say I've been trying

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and ... impossibly hard. They learned how to build things that wouldn’t break (by ... once you realize it needs to change (by hanging on too long and then

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... wants me to add that he drove, like, 10% of it.'](and by “we” I mean ... our food stops and border control in-between, it took us 15 hours to get

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lunch. I'm half-convinced that any minute now I'm going to get a call or ... to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  you really dropped the ball". So, here's to accountability! Get Fit ... website or anything. I am planning to learn Python in January so! Very excited. Get Out go to at least 3 musicals Over break, I reignited my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  cure cancer. 3)Stick to it. By far the hardest part. It's easy to get ... something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  common question I get about the class: no, you do not have to draw your ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... , society and the environment. Thanks to the Nobel website for the description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  students—from grades seven to twelve—occupied a distinct row or two. And by ... assembly ground to the other, over and over and over until time was up. By ... assembly and after class, to get shade from the sun, to avoid nap time, to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  of the regular quests have time limits, you’ll likely need to get an ... debuff affecting your ability to complete your quest by the deadline, you ... ="alignnone" width="1882"] it's nice to pause the game when you need to[/caption] By

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  the MyMIT website, so be sure to check that out when it gets posted ... finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you ... 'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... need, and get back to studying for 18.02 and making a note sheet that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have ... .86 in Euro. Then, in reference to the quote, "When I get a little money, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and ... , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  * Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... 'll have to come up with your own). By freshman year I actually knew I ... morning I started to get nervous. I'd been told that decisions come out 15

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008