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  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you're ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... you're a second year". Things that feel notable to me. "Algebra ... catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn ... which to stand, and slowly, surely get stronger with the help of my ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... a drone with your phone attached to it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it ... continue that line across the street, you get to Building 46. Branching off ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• 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…

  

  AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get ... bored, and if I did get bored, I'd have space and skills enough to find ... semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . You’ve been inside since 11am, trying to get your circuit to generate ... ’t work. You add some print commands to the broken part. Your code works

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  add a few years to your lifespan. I remember dedicating quite a few ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... kindness. Help people. Contribute to your community. There were moments in ... people, you will somehow be good in your school as you will be required to

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... do to cope with it. Cry, scream, eat your feelings. But only for a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... Braintree, we get out of the train, realize that the same train was going to ... , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011