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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... unwieldly. Microphone - This clips onto (1) and makes me look like a tech

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack ... "]**[/annotation] [annotation note="and by “don’t matter” i mean they don’t really make a tangible ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Corporation, founded by MIT Professor Amar Bose Ellen Swallow Richards, a ... Sharp, MIT Professor (and a lot more!) since 1974 Email, invented by ... Web, invented by MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee   That's a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... else but a river. Most forward reactions are opposed by a reverse

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large supplementary figure section to make sure your reader has a thoroughly ... solution! Make sure to spend a lot of time on font, text size, color palette

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... , structures, and everything else that makes an airplane fly or a rocket orbit ... an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... hardest decision I've had to make is to give up on a project. When I applied

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  rewarding. We'd know we are contributing to making a beautiful and useful ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  to make school assignments more interesting by incorporating the things ... Here’s a friendly step-by-step guide to being Junior Year Michelle, i ... start a company, you have to make sure that all your employees are working

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  student. Sorry. There is a way to be qualified to come here, and that's by ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011