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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... that I’m going to make an impact tomorrow. For my fellow course 2’s, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  [/annotation] making a CSS demo which is real neat in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Sunday I ... 't be able to make it to their class. I then took some notes for ... ) because it allowed me to actually just sit. I think it's a bit sad that it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  to the entire Admissions Committee to make a decision on (more on this ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... without a formal AP class. You may want to annotate those exams in some way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... . After a short walk to McCormick, we reached her room and I finally put all

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  . Each was unbelievably awesome, and I'll make a point to blog about my ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... ), there was a class each term which had the curious tendency to absorb all

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... with my goal of graduating with enough knowledge and practice to launch a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , more students are applying to MIT every year - which makes me extra happy ... offer a final decision (admitted or not admitted) to many more students ... Early Action rose quite a bit. However, it’s important to remember that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a ... graduate program on a fluke and that someday she'd make an error that would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  felt, unlike any other.  I helped her to her room.  I got a bowl from the ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... , grabbed a bag, some paper towels, and followed him down the hall to her room

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  years later amidst the Wordle craze, inspired him to make Semantle, a game ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... eventually found the secret word (display). To unpack Semantle a little bit

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  exiting traditional education entirely. So it was a lot to make sense of all ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... and trying to put together a freshman class? Chris Peterson: I think we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... Floor Activities Fund. Basically, to promote dorm unity, if you bring a certain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... but it is enough to make you dysfunctional. And as I much as I hate ... my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the ... 're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... . Shoutout to my friends for going out of their way to make this poster

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us ... free to bring pillows and blankets and maybe take a nap, since we're all

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016