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

  

  all kinds of high-tech research, from paper-thin loudspeakers to new ... , 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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  to tell you about this semester. Eventually, one-by-one, they will ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... memories to be made, new stories to be told, and new friends with whom to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• 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 when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical ... you don't fail any classes, simply -1 from your MIT GPA to find the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I ... giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with ... formerly joyful turned to chores. like being blown by erratic winds, ones ... your boat too close to the wind. but that was the principle. "i'll show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... . I like to write a reflection every new year, and though I haven’t yet

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  ) Prof. Egozy is amazing and you get to create cool things like your own ... , you get to build your own microscope and micro fluidic device then ... . You get to pick your own research area and dive into any topic related

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  your work will get done—there is enough help around campus to not stop ... fun! work with people you like—you do not need to fill your resume with ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  probably get them then. If you're not traveling a long way, though, then by ... on this one, just because a) it's a fun way to get to know your ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... short, Shahab, yes, we will value your poetry. I look forward to hearing ... look forward to reading about your passions, too. Finally, with a month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009