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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... for us, since I didn't know the first thing about wood, drywall, or ... care for a baby, but I think wood slab ownership is the closest I’ve ever

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  So if you've been reading these blogs for a while now, you might ... for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the ... an email with the subject line "Revised Requirements for the Economics

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  Digging, Dagging Go!   Our final project for Experimental Writing was ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental health on campus, a usual subject for me. However, this time, I took a look

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve ... and socialize and grow and cry there for the next four-ish years. Don

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  Place I have a job! At Formlabs! I play with liquid photopolymers for ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... ; -----------------------------------------   Well, that's mostly it right now, besides actively looking for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for ... files while coding the Java files for the intents and actions. I even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months ... substitute for the sensation of interior space, but I grabbed a few anyway ... spending 4.5 months in Seattle working for Amazon. It will be the longest

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. For those of you who

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Astro for short) has its benefits. For instance, we all got priority tickets ... basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... class for an entire semester already, spending time relaxing, traveling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs from this past semester (the MITx supplemental video-making one), I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight ... professors and graduate students but they present a learning opportunity for ... both great for finding UROP/MEng advisors as well as getting your name

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

      Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  . Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get_a_urop. Instead, clueless and confused, I asked for advice from upperclassmen who ... I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  in med school as it is in undergrad (also, for some reason, EVERYONE ... miss MIT so much! For those of you entering MIT this upcoming fall, make the most of these next 4 years – you’re in for such a treat! For those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... interview prospective students for the first time this year.  I've been moving

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... the main speaker for the 148th Commencement. Early on the speech she

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... for his shoulders, her arms clamping gently onto them. “Have a seat ... have been mistaken for a safe box with a screen. From within it, The Real

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014