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  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , used to completing psets by Friday morning and then simply sitting on the ... , where I’ll get to talk to EC alumni and eat free pad thai. And afterwards ... that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  . Title: Foliage Dress Description: This dress, inspired by the New ... over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  's or about getting in to your dream school. "Being the best you can be ... how painfully obvious that was. Of course you have to do your best. How ... because I could. I would get things done, I'd just be sure to calculate how

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  its way. For now, if you're ever in building 33, stop by the hangar and ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful ... was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count ... enthusiasts. We have an active origami club, OrigaMIT. It is currently run by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... want to. :) 4. We're not afraid to put our engineering skills to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... up and started to get ready. If you have never built a big project, you ... happy to let us do), get the right drill bit, and get the right screws (we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I ... first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... by all my ci-h classes and [annotation note="I AM NOW IN INTRO TO ... muses, chorallaries, and syncopasians. i would love to join your groups

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  and fascinating place to spend your college years and it's great that ... you the tools you'll need to forge ahead. Try to get some rest Friday ... Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware ... actually translated to Spanish from Catalán). Como Agua Para Chocolate (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  . I'm also thrilled to be part of DUSP's new urban science major (Course ... . Anything else that you want to say? I'm starting a new lab called the Data ... we'll post periodically. And just generally, feel free to get in touch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020