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  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  part? Easily carried by one person My team decided to go a bit of a ... In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: 'Aranjuez' by Jorge Muñiz & José Luis Duval ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  thought it would be. I was originally intimidated by the fact I had to make ... our duty to ensure everyone is accepted and welcome...it makes it a lot ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... into a maple tree, John cautiously decided to safetify its successor by ... mattress to and fro like a cradle rocked by a babysitter with coughing fits

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  makes you content.”   I’m learning to build my life bit by bit and ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... looking to hire almost exclusively freshmen to maintain a balance between

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... ;s perfect. His level of musicianship just makes me feel so lucky to be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... off/landing. A survey done by Newser found that 56% of respondents would ... Leg Room. Bound to have terrible neighbours whose goal it is to make

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture ... together to make a better world. That is MIT. Nothing can change that. And ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for ... ? Because they have a physics project that they're going to be working on all

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... website called Whereis.mit.edu, a handy-dandy campus map). Honestly though

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. By a machine, I mean my television. Oh, the movies I've missed since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  ." Absolutely! Ideal candidates will match: MIT's mission to make the world a ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal ... ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... myself a decent hiker, so I was determined to make it, but I really, really ... analogy I'm trying to make by now. This particular anecdote perfectly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020