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• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... of my life—the SuperUROP corresponding to 6.UAR, a year-long class ... -related justifications: the first, a class on the fundamentals of computer security, was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... to a lot of running around campus and scrambling to turn in psets on ... early finish; I’d really like to have more time to focus more on classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  head about whether to censor the names on these posters. On one hand, a ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , whether it’s a new one or an old one or that one you keep meaning to start ... those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a ... honestly more of a long essay that happens to be bound than a book, but I got

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every ... culture here on campus. All in all, I just wanted to end with a message to ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... 've got a system. Regardless, this led to me disliking a lot of things as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... newfound sense of domesticness and set out to make a bunch of stuff. Because

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... various divisibility tests. I wasn't certain, though, until I got to a ... totally list that as a talent on your application). Number theory is fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... full spreadsheet is linked here, but to expand on/summarize it: I spent ... , which isn’t at all a surprise to me. I spent 191 hours , which is 11

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  he was "deeply honored" to be given the chance to lead the office on a ... reason to believe will yield a diverse and talented class," Hastings said ... also want to say what an outstanding admissions staff we have and what a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  interview on Wednesday, but only clicked the button today. I’m supposed to ... pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started ... I was slowing down. I got distracted quite a bit, but still managed to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  decided a trip northbound through upstate New York to Niagara Falls and into ... soccer or the patience to watch it, but seeing a goal finally being made ... move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  a new, useful skill that's really relevant to the design process. If I ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... that I have a minor platform, I finally have a place to share my awful ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  on my research and to [annotation note="to be a teaching assistant ... new advisor and my new lab is pretty good, I have a lot of freedom to ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... followed a friend to attend a 2.006 (Thermal Fluids Engineering II) lecture ... that you’re not completely sold on MIT yet. Perhaps a friend of a friend

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007