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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... 't agree more that over time, a person makes choices which define him

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  community, she'll be able to make great friends, and above all, she's a great ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... . Firehose itself became a single word referring to the academic experience

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  throughout the night to make sure that everything was fine. There are emergency ... back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called ... about a relevant IAP course: The time our 6.006 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... transfer to MIT, I was a community college student pursuing chemical

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024